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Pesticide usage - soft fruit crops 2018: survey results
Information from a survey of pesticide use on soft fruit crops grown in Scotland during 2018.
Table 7 Raspberry biological and physical control formulations - 2018
Area (ha), weight (kg) and percentage of crop treated
| Biological control agents | Non-protected raspberry | Protected raspberry | All raspberry 2018 | All raspberry 2016(1) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ha | % | ha | % | ha | kg | ha | kg | |
| Steinernema feltiae | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | N/A | 0 | N/A |
| Steinernema kraussei | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | N/A | 0 | N/A |
| All biological control agents | 0 | 7 | 7 | N/A | 3 | N/A | ||
| Biopesticides | ||||||||
| Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain D747 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | <0.5 |
| Beauveria bassiana ATCC - 74040 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | <0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| All biopesticides | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 72 | 7 | |
| All biologicals(2) | 0 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 16 | 3 | 75 | 7 |
| Physical control | ||||||||
| Carbonic acid diamide/urea | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Area grown | 113 | 162 | 276 | 329 | ||||
(1) For a full list of formulations recorded in 2016 please refer to the 2016 report(3)
(2) All biologicals includes biological control agents and biopesticides
Note: invertebrate biological control agents are applied by number of organisms rather than weight therefore weight data are not presented
N/A = not applicable
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