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.


Table 26 Potato seed treatment active substances - 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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