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 13 Other soft fruit insecticide and acaricide formulations - 2018

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

Insecticides/acaricides Non-protected other soft fruit Protected other soft fruit All other soft fruit 2018(1) All other soft fruit 2016(2)
ha % ha % ha kg ha kg
Abamectin 0 0 19 7 19 <0.5 25 <0.5
Chlorantraniliprole 0 0 9 4 9 <0.5 0 0
Etoxazole 0 0 1 1 1 <0.5 0 0
Indoxacarb 0 0 9 4 9 <0.5 0 0
Lambda-cyhalothrin 8 5 82 32 90 1 57 <0.5
Pirimicarb 8 6 0 0 8 2 0 0
Pymetrozine 0 0 7 3 7 1 0 0
Pyrethrins 0 0 197 51 197 10 125 8
Spinosad 0 0 85 28 85 8 7 1
Tebufenpyrad 0 0 4 2 4 <0.5 0 0
Thiacloprid 10 7 247 74 257 30 268 32
All insecticides/acaricides 26 17 661 91 687 53 494 42
Area grown 139 218 356 248

(1) In 2018 other soft fruit crops included blueberry, blackberry, gooseberry, redcurrant, aronia, honeyberry, japanese wineberry, jostaberry, loganberry, tayberry, tummelberry, whitecurrant and worcesterberry

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

Contact

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