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 8 Raspberry fungicide and sulphur formulations - 2018

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

Fungicides Non-protected raspberry Protected raspberry All raspberry 2018 All raspberry 2016(1)
ha % ha % ha kg ha kg
Azoxystrobin 26 23 110 51 136 34 57 14
Boscalid/pyraclostrobin 28 18 120 48 148 62 179 76
Bupirimate 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 7
Chlorothalonil 0 0 4 3 4 5 0 0
Cyprodinil/fludioxonil 15 13 75 40 90 55 236 137
Dimethomorph 0 0 45 28 45 66 124 157
Fenhexamid 119 29 231 75 349 228 351 228
Fenpropimorph 7 3 0 0 7 5 7 5
Iprodione 0 0 10 6 10 8 109 81
Metalaxyl-M 3 3 3 2 6 2 0 0
Potassium hydrogen carbonate 0 0 4 3 4 31 0 0
Pyrimethanil 14 6 130 73 143 58 80 28
Tebuconazole 46 20 17 6 62 12 48 8
All fungicides 257 40 749 99 1,005 566 1,322 772
Sulphur 12 10 0 0 12 47 34 270
Area grown 113 162 276 329

(1) For a full list of formulations recorded in 2016 please refer to the 2016 report(3)

Contact

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