Coverage & Gaps
What AgricultureID knows, what it has looked for and could not use, and what nobody has looked at yet.
“AgricultureID has no record of a German pesticide register” and “Germany has no pesticide register” are completely different statements. The first is true; the second is false. A blank cell invites a reader to make the second inference, so no cell on this page is blank: each says which of several very different situations it is in.
There is no completeness percentage here, because there is nothing honest to divide by. Where a set is closed — the Member States of the European Union, the states of the United States — coverage is counted against a list written from the instrument that constitutes it, never from this corpus. Where it is open-ended, the page reports what the corpus holds and says that is what it is reporting.
- Countries
- 40
- Layers
- 13
- Covered
- 156
- Not yet indexed
- 356
520 country-and-layer cells. 356 of them say only that nobody has looked — which is the commonest honest answer and says nothing else.
What each answer means
- Covered
- AgricultureID holds records and knows the official source behind them.
- Partly covered
- Records exist, but not for every part of a set whose membership is fixed and independently known.
- Official source could not be reached
- The official source was identified and could not be read — because it could not be reached, or because its publisher’s access rules do not permit it.
- Official source not in a usable form
- The official source was found and read, and publishes nothing that can be indexed here without guessing.
- Not yet indexed
- Nobody has looked. This says nothing about whether anything exists.
- Not applicable here
- The subject does not arise at this level of government, for a stated structural reason.
By country and layer
| Country | authorities | registries | requirements | programmes | listings | registrations | authorisations | resources | statistics | observations | requirements | figures | values |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 377 | — | — | — | 27 |
| Australia | part | 3 | — | — | — | 2 | 13,972 | — | 480 | — | 1 | — | 73 |
| Brazil | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 445 | — | — | — | 33 |
| Canada | part | 3 | — | — | — | 8 | 12,996 | — | 457 | — | 1 | — | 38 |
| Chile | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 409 | — | — | — | 30 |
| China | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 537 | — | — | — | 37 |
| Colombia | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 392 | — | — | — | 27 |
| Czechia | 1 | — | — | — | — | 5 | — | — | 370 | — | — | 774 | 52 |
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 441 | — | — | — | 39 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 349 | — | — | — | 58 |
| France | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | 8 | 15,140 | — | 415 | — | — | 824 | 32 |
| Germany | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 11 | — | — | 381 | — | — | 716 | 47 |
| Greece | — | — | — | — | — | 7 | — | — | 416 | — | — | 1,178 | 64 |
| Hungary | 1 | — | — | — | — | 5 | — | — | 397 | — | — | 1,214 | 68 |
| India | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 443 | — | — | — | 49 |
| Indonesia | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 379 | — | — | — | 25 |
| Italy | 1 | — | — | — | — | 13 | — | — | 404 | — | — | 670 | 39 |
| Japan | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | ! | — | — | 405 | — | 1 | — | 39 |
| Kenya | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 449 | — | — | — | 48 |
| Mexico | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 527 | — | — | — | 49 |
| Morocco | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 426 | — | — | — | 54 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 14 | ! | — | 359 | — | — | 1,136 | 47 |
| New Zealand | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 329 | — | — | — | 28 |
| Nigeria | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 327 | — | — | — | 29 |
| Pakistan | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 375 | — | — | — | 54 |
| Peru | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 459 | — | — | — | 25 |
| Poland | 1 | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | 398 | — | — | 1,356 | 33 |
| Portugal | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | — | — | 405 | — | — | 1,114 | 44 |
| Romania | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 391 | — | — | 1,102 | 73 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 292 | — | — | — | 50 |
| South Africa | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 488 | — | — | — | 27 |
| Korea, Rep. | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 376 | — | 1 | — | 25 |
| Spain | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 5 | ! | — | 476 | — | — | 1,533 | 58 |
| Thailand | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 418 | — | — | — | 25 |
| Turkiye | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 536 | — | — | — | 50 |
| Ukraine | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 433 | — | — | — | 79 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 286 | — | — | — | 67 |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 11 | ! | 24 | 358 | — | 2 | — | 32 |
| United States | part | 13 | 2 | 6 | — | 3 | ! | 129 | 586 | 91,620 | 1 | 306 | 48,906 |
| Viet Nam | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 362 | — | — | — | 25 |
A number is how many records AgricultureID holds. “—” means not yet indexed, never that nothing exists. “!” means the source was researched and could not be used; the reason is below.
Counted against an independent list
These sets have a fixed membership that does not depend on what AgricultureID holds, so a fraction of them means something. The lists are written from the instruments that constitute them — the Union’s Member States, the states of the United States — and a completeness check that took its target from this corpus would report full coverage by construction.
- Agricultural authorities — 8 of 27 European Union Member Statesnot yet indexed: AUT, BEL, BGR, HRV, CYP, DNK, EST, FIN, GRC, IRL, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, SWE
- Variety registrations — 20 of 27 European Union Member Statesnot yet indexed: BGR, EST, LVA, LTU, MLT, ROU, SVN
- Agricultural authorities — 31 of 50 States of the United Statesnot yet indexed: AK, AR, GA, ID, KS, KY, MD, MI, MO, MT, NV, NH, NM, NY, ND, OH, RI, VA, WV
- Agricultural authorities — 8 of 13 Provinces and territories of Canadanot yet indexed: NB, NT, NU, PE, YT
- Agricultural authorities — 6 of 8 States and territories of Australianot yet indexed: ACT, NT
Looked for, and not usable
These are the most informative blanks on the page: an official source exists, it was found, and it still cannot be indexed here. Knowing that is worth more than knowing nothing, and it is a different situation from nobody having looked.
Japan — Variety registrations
Japan’s plant variety registration database was found and searched. It publishes variety denominations in Japanese script only, so a name in this corpus cannot be identical to one in that register, and identity here is established by identical names.
verified 2026-08-27
Netherlands — Input authorisations
The Netherlands’ official pesticide register was found and read in a browser. It publishes its records through a search interface and offers no bulk file.
verified 2026-08-27
Spain — Input authorisations
Spain’s official pesticide register was found and read in a browser. Its published extract could not be verified in a form this corpus can ingest without inference.
verified 2026-08-27
United Kingdom — Input authorisations
The United Kingdom’s official pesticide register was found and read in a browser. It publishes its records through a search form and offers no bulk file, so they cannot be indexed here without scraping the search interface.
verified 2026-08-27
United States — Input authorisations
The United States pesticide product label system was found and read in a browser. It publishes labels rather than a structured register of authorisations, so there is nothing here to index as authorisation records.
verified 2026-08-27
Across jurisdictions — Soil survey observations
A global modelled soil dataset was found and read. It predicts soil properties for grid cells rather than describing mapped soil bodies, and placing those beside a survey’s own units as though they were the same kind of fact would misdescribe both.
verified 2026-08-27
Across jurisdictions — Variety registrations
The international variety database that would have covered several jurisdictions at once was identified but not read, because its publisher’s access rules do not permit it.
verified 2026-08-27
What comes next
Gaps fall into three groups, each answering one question that is either true or false. There is no score: no weighting of a record count and three yes/no answers produces a meaningful ordering between one gap and the next.
- 61 ready
- An official source is known and nothing blocks reading it
- 5 blocked
- An official source is known and something blocks reading it
- 298 unexamined
- No official source has been looked for
Where a layer does not arise
Below the national level most of these layers are not incomplete, they are inapplicable. Showing “not yet indexed” against a US state for pesticide authorisation would invite a reader to wait for something that is never coming.
- Input authorisations — Authorisation of a plant protection product is a national decision under national law. A state, province or territory does not issue one.
- Variety registrations — Variety registration and plant variety rights are granted nationally or supranationally. A subdivision maintains no register of its own.
- Market statistics — The statistical series in this corpus are reported by national statistical authorities to international bodies, and are published at country level only.
- Compliance requirements — The compliance topics here are national or supranational instruments. Subnational rules exist but are a different subject, not a missing part of this one.
- Biosecurity listings — The listings here are recommendations by an intergovernmental organisation to its member countries. A subdivision is not a member.
- Support programmes — The programmes here are national or supranational schemes. Subnational schemes exist and are outside what this layer indexes.
- Extension resources — Extension services are indexed by the institution that publishes them, not by the subdivision they serve.
- Official registries — A registry is indexed against the government that operates it. Those operated by a subdivision are recorded against that subdivision directly, not as a gap in the national row.