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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 treated (ha), percentage of crop treated and quantity (kg) of active substances for all crops

Seed treatments	Seed potatoes		Ware potatoes		All potatoes	All potatoes
	(ha)	(%)	(ha)	(%)	(ha)	(kg)
Fludioxonil	930	7	95	1	1,025	99
Flutolanil	1,762	14	2,526	17	4,288	1,455
Imazalil	1,294	10	3,335	23	4,629	193
Pencycuron	7,097	56	8,071	55	15,168	8,996
Thiabendazole	1,043	8	1,651	11	2,694	270
Unspecified seed treatment ⁽¹⁾	169	1	0	0	169	N/A
All seed treatments	12,295	85	15,678	88	27,973	11,014
No information seed treatment ⁽¹⁾	582	5	288	2	869
No seed treatment	1,309	10	1,526	10	2,835
Area grown	12,760		14,766		27,526

(1) Refer to Appendix 3 for definitions

N/A = not applicable

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