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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 26 Vegetables (excluding legumes and leaf brassicas) insecticide and molluscicide active substances

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

Insecticides	Carrots		Turnips & swedes		Other vegetable crops		Total
	(ha)	(%)	(ha)	(%)	(ha)	(%)	(ha)	(kg)
Acetamiprid	0	0	0	0	77	10	77	2
Cypermethrin	0	0	0	0	19	3	19	<0.5
Deltamethrin	1,808	29	1,059	53	631	43	3,498	24
Lambda-cyhalothrin	8,207	81	986	44	974	65	10,166	115
Oxamyl	802	28	0	0	199	27	1,001	1,764
Pirimicarb	1,516	41	632	33	0	0	2,148	344
Pymetrozine	0	0	295	20	0	0	295	44
Thiacloprid	108	4	132	9	0	0	240	23
All insecticides	12,441	92	3,104	88	1,900	82	17,445	2,317
Molluscicides
Metaldehyde	0	0	728	44	119	16	847	188
All molluscicides	0	0	728	44	119	16	847	188
Area grown	2,908		1,503		730		5,142

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