Leading companies worldwide 2023, based on pesticide sales

In 2023, Syngenta was ranked as the world's leading crop protection company based on revenue, generating some ***** billion U.S. dollars in pesticide sales. Second in the ranking was Bayer CropScience, a subgroup of Bayer AG, with pesticide sales amounting to **** billion U.S. dollars. In 2023, the total revenue of Bayer CropScience, including seed and pesticide sales, amounted to over ** billion euros. 

Global consumption of pesticides

Pesticides are substances used in agriculture to control the appearance of pests or regulate plant growth. The consumption volume of pesticides has grown significantly during the last three decades, reaching **** million metric tons in 2022. This translates into **** kilograms of pesticides per hectare of cropland worldwide, a figure that has remained stable during the last decade.

Regional distribution

The Americas are the region that consumes by far the most pesticides worldwide with over half of the global consumption in 2022. China alone consumed a total of **** billion metric tons of agricultural pesticides in that year, more than ** percent of the global consumption. Asia and America were the regions with the highest pesticide consumption per area of cropland with roughly *** kilograms per hectare.