The line graph illustrates the amount of money spent on crop preservation and how harvests were damaged in three different regions of the world in 2005.
Overall, it can be seen that Australia is generally the biggest investor in crop protection, ending the year with the highest expenditure , whereas Europe saw a steady decline. Regarding crops destruction, fires were dominant cause of damage in Australia, whilst Europe and Africa were mostly impacted with floods and insects, respectively.
In terms of expenditure, Australia began the year spending nearly $600 million on crop protection. After spending $400 million in tht middle of the year, spending increased at its peak at nearle $900 million by the end of the year. Conversely, Europe started as the highest spender on crops protection, by investing $800 million, but its investment started decreasing at $450 million by the end of the year. Meanwhile, Africa comes the last with the lowest and stable pattern. Rising from about $250 million in the first 6 month to nearly $400 million.
Regarding the crops damage, Australia suffered the most extentive destruction due to fires, losing almost 900,000 hectares by far this category is the largest category of damage across all regions. By contrast, floods and insect had a much lower impact on crops. Europe illustrated a completely different results, where floods were the dominating at damaging crops, at 700,000 hectares, followed by insects at nearle 600,000 hectares respectively. Africa dominates by insect damage and fire, which both impacted at pretty same level at approximately 700,000 each.