Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops

A revised version of this report has been issued to correct inaccuracies in active substance application weight data that were overestimated in the original report. This issue only affects certain herbicide active substances in relation to quantity applied. Please do not use the original version of this report as this has now been replaced by the revised 2020 report: Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops – revised 2020.

This publication presents information from a survey of pesticide use on soft fruit crops grown in Scotland during 2016.


Table 11: Blackcurrant fungicide and sulphur formulations - 2016

Area (ha) and percentage of crop treated

Fungicides Blackcurrants 2014 (1)
(Ha) (%) (Ha)
Boscalid/pyraclostrobin 200 66 485
Chlorothalonil <0.5 <0.5 47
Copper oxychloride 2 <0.5 0
Cyprodinil/fludioxonil 198 65 355
Dodine 1 <0.5 0
Fenhexamid 84 28 188
Fenpropimorph 3 <0.5 5
Kresoxim-methyl 397 67 84
Myclobutanil 518 87 387
Penconazole 3 <0.5 0
Pyrimethanil 53 17 105
All fungicides 1,459 87 1,667
Sulphur 402 68 633
Area grown 304 341

(1) For full list of formulations recorded in 2014 please refer to the 2014 report (3)

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