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 11 Blackcurrant fungicide and sulphur formulations - 2018

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

Fungicides All blackcurrant 2018 All blackcurrant 2016(1)
ha % kg ha kg
Boscalid/pyraclostrobin 531 96 261 200 100
Bupirimate <0.5 <0.5 <0.5 0 0
Cyprodinil/fludioxonil 172 61 107 198 124
Fenhexamid 81 28 60 84 62
Fenpropimorph 84 29 63 3 2
Kresoxim-methyl 178 63 18 397 40
Myclobutanil 85 30 8 518 40
Pyrimethanil 85 30 68 53 41
Quinoxyfen 4 1 <0.5 0 0
All fungicides 1,219 97 585 1,459 412
Sulphur 522 91 3,353 402 3,207
Area grown 282 304

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

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