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 Please do not use the original version of this report as this has now been replaced by the revised 2020 report: Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops – revised 2020.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 15: Other soft fruit herbicide formulations - 2016

Area (ha) and percentage of crop treated

Herbicides Non-protected other soft fruit Protected other soft fruit All other soft fruit crops 2014 (1)
(Ha) (%) (Ha) (%) (Ha) (%) (Ha)
Diquat 22 32 85 47 107 43 63
Flufenacet/metribuzin 13 19 2 1 15 6 2
Glyphosate 0 0 55 12 55 9 9
Isoxaben 11 17 2 1 13 5 3
Napropamide 8 12 52 29 60 24 45
Pendimethalin 10 15 0 0 10 4 1
Propyzamide 9 13 2 1 10 4 17
All herbicides 72 36 197 59 270 53 158
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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