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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 15 Other soft fruit fungicide and sulphur formulations - 2018
Area (ha), weight (kg) and percentage of crop treated
| Fungicides | 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 | |
| Azoxystrobin | 0 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 28 | 7 |
| Boscalid/pyraclostrobin | 11 | 8 | 46 | 15 | 57 | 19 | 42 | 16 |
| Bupirimate | 11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| Cyprodinil/fludioxonil | 18 | 5 | 169 | 62 | 186 | 94 | 155 | 69 |
| Fenhexamid | 24 | 7 | 127 | 52 | 152 | 93 | 42 | 29 |
| Fenpropimorph | 63 | 24 | 2 | 1 | 64 | 42 | 23 | 14 |
| Kresoxim-methyl | 30 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Myclobutanil | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | <0.5 | 26 | 1 |
| Pyrimethanil | 0 | 0 | 111 | 51 | 111 | 79 | 64 | 43 |
| Quinoxyfen | 47 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 6 | 9 | 1 |
| All fungicides | 209 | 38 | 466 | 85 | 675 | 342 | 414 | 189 |
| Sulphur | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 25 |
| 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)
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Email: psu@sasa.gov.scot
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