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 Please do not use the original version of this report as this has now been replaced by the revised 2020 report: Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops – revised 2020.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 14: Other soft fruit fungicide and sulphur formulations - 2016

Area (ha) and percentage of crop treated

Fungicides Non-protected other soft fruit Protected other soft fruit All other soft fruit crops 2014 (1)
(Ha) (%) (Ha) (%) (Ha) (%) (Ha)
Azoxystrobin 0 0 28 15 28 11 12
Boscalid/pyraclostrobin 14 11 29 15 42 14 6
Bupirimate 4 6 0 0 4 2 28
Copper oxychloride 2 2 4 1 6 1 4
Cyprodinil/fludioxonil 4 6 151 56 155 42 137
Fenhexamid 15 22 28 15 42 17 50
Fenpropimorph 23 16 0 0 23 4 27
Myclobutanil 26 23 0 0 26 6 42
Penconazole 14 10 0 0 14 3 0
Pyrimethanil 14 10 50 28 64 23 4
Quinoxyfen 9 6 0 0 9 2 13
All fungicides 125 37 289 56 414 51 327
Sulphur 2 2 4 1 6 1 4
Area grown 68 180 248 172

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

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