Retailers with a B1 permit must report annual sales of specific pesticides requiring an agronomic prescription. The data includes product names, registration numbers, active ingredients, quantities sold, and the administrative region of the customer. The dataset is published by the Government and Municipalities of Québec under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Tracking sales volumes of specific active ingredients like atrazine or neonicotinoids.
- Analyzing regional distribution patterns of pesticide sales based on customer administrative region.
- Monitoring compliance and market trends for pesticides subject to agronomic prescription regulations.
Strengths
- Data is mandated by regulation (section 55.1), suggesting a formal collection process.
- Includes specific active ingredients and concentrations, as mentioned in the description.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Government and Municipalities of Québec
- Collection Method
- Mandatory annual reporting by retailers with a B1 permit.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:46:00.599640; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Quebec, Canada