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Pesticide usage in Scotland: arable crops and potato stores 2016

This publication presents information from a survey of pesticide use on arable crops and potato stores in Scotland during 2016.

Area (ha) and percentage of crop treated

Seed treatments	Seed potatoes		Ware potatoes		All potatoes	2014
	(ha)	(%)	(ha)	(%)	(ha)	(ha)
Fludioxonil	930	7	95	1	1,025	0
Flutolanil	1,762	14	2,526	17	4,288	3,163
Imazalil	251	2	1,232	8	1,484	1,971
Imazalil/pencycuron	0	0	452	3	452	2,024
Imazalil/thiabendazole	1,043	8	1,651	11	2,694	4,226
Pencycuron	7,097	56	7,619	52	14,716	17,497
Unspecified seed treatment ⁽¹⁾	169	1	0	0	169	783
All seed treatments	11,253	85	13,575	88	24,828	29,663
No information seed treatment ⁽¹⁾	582	5	288	2	869	0
No seed treatment	1,309	10	1,526	10	2,835	1,884
Area grown	12,760		14,766		27,526	28,511

(1) Refer to Appendix 3 for definitions

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