date:Dec 01, 2017
which used to be a Government arm, and were only made public after the Soil Association paid for them to be released from archives.
Onions and leeks have seen the biggest rise in toxic chemicals applied to them with the number rising 17 fold from 1.8 in 1966 to 32.6 in 2015, the data showed.
Back in 1974 less than two chemicals were applied to an average wheat crop, a figure which rose more than ten fold to 20.7 in 2014.
And potato crops are now sprayed with five times more chemicals than