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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 12 Vegetables (excluding legumes and leaf brassicas) insecticide and molluscicide formulations

Area (ha) and percentage of crop treated

Insecticides	Carrots		Turnips & swedes		Other vegetable crops		Total	2013
	(ha)	(%)	(ha)	(%)	(ha)	(%)	(ha)	(ha)
Acetamiprid	0	0	0	0	77	10	77	0
Cypermethrin	0	0	0	0	19	3	19	0
Deltamethrin	1,808	29	1,059	53	631	43	3,498	2,299
Lambda-cyhalothrin	8,207	81	986	44	974	65	10,166	10,365
Oxamyl	802	28	0	0	199	27	1,001	1,044
Pirimicarb	1,516	41	632	33	0	0	2,148	1,016
Pymetrozine	0	0	295	20	0	0	295	0
Thiacloprid	108	4	132	9	0	0	240	889
All insecticides	12,441	92	3,104	88	1,900	82	17,445	15,612
Molluscicides
Metaldehyde	0	0	728	44	119	16	847	1,613
All molluscicides	0	0	728	44	119	16	847	1,722
Area grown	2,908		1,503		730		5,142	5,623

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