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 Please do not use the original version of this report as this has now been replaced by the revised 2020 report: Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops – revised 2020.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 22: Raspberry fungicide and sulphur active substances - 2016

Area (ha), Quantity (kg) and percentage of crop treated

Fungicides Non-protected raspberry Protected raspberry All raspberry
(Ha) (%) (Kg) (Ha) (%) (Kg) (Ha) (%) (Kg)
Azoxystrobin 6 2 2 51 24 13 57 15 14
Boscalid 26 19 10 152 77 51 179 54 61
Bupirimate 29 22 7 0 0 0 29 9 7
Cyprodinil 78 43 23 158 75 59 236 62 82
Dimethomorph 63 48 65 61 31 92 124 38 157
Fenhexamid 161 51 90 189 77 138 351 66 228
Fenpropimorph 0 0 0 7 4 5 7 2 5
Fluazinam 0 0 0 33 16 25 33 10 25
Fludioxonil 78 43 15 158 75 39 236 62 55
Iprodione 40 28 30 69 24 51 109 26 81
Myclobutanil 34 26 3 35 18 2 69 21 5
Pyraclostrobin 26 19 2 152 77 13 179 54 15
Pyrimethanil 34 26 14 46 22 15 80 24 28
Tebuconazole 35 25 6 13 4 3 48 12 8
All fungicides 612 69 267 1,125 99 505 1,737 87 772
Sulphur 34 26 270 0 0 0 34 10 270
Area grown 131 199 329

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