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Pesticide Usage in Scotland: Outdoor Vegetable Crops 2015
Information from a survey of pesticide use on vegetable crops grown for human consumption in Scotland during 2015.
Table 11 Vegetables (excluding legumes and leaf brassicas) seed treatment formulations
Area treated (ha), percentage of crop treated and percentage of crop grown from transplants
| Seed treatments | Carrots | Turnips & swedes | Other vegetable crops (1) | Total | 2013 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (ha) | (%) | (ha) | (%) | (ha) | (%) | (ha) | (ha) | |
| Bacillus subtilis | 0 | 0 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 486 |
| Cymoxanil/fludioxonil/metalaxyl-M | 2,312 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 433 | 59 | 2,745 | 2,025 |
| Iprodione | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 43 |
| Metalaxyl-M | 317 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 317 | 0 |
| Tefluthrin | 1,465 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 1,474 | 1,454 |
| Thiamethoxam | 317 | 11 | 407 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 724 | 50 |
| Thiram | 317 | 11 | 979 | 65 | 60 | 8 | 1,356 | 1,555 |
| Unspecified seed treatment (2) | 0 | 0 | 229 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 229 | 0 |
| All seed treatments | 4,729 | 93 | 1,645 | 100 | 504 | 65 | 6,878 | 5,614 |
| Crop grown from transplant | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141 | 19 | 141 | 204 |
| No seed treatment | 216 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 5 | 252 | 1,381 |
| Area grown | 2,908 | 1,503 | 730 | 5,142 | 5,623 | |||
(1) Other vegetable crops include perennial rhubarb over one year old. Therefore, seed treatment and transplant information was not collected.
(2) Refer to Appendix 3 for definition.
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