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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 16 Other soft fruit herbicide and desiccant formulations - 2018
Area (ha), weight (kg) and percentage of crop treated
| Herbicides/desiccants | 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 | |
| Carfentrazone-ethyl | 23 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 23 | <0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Clethodim | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Diquat | 41 | 30 | 34 | 16 | 75 | 27 | 107 | 19 |
| Fluazifop-p-butyl | 19 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Flufenacet/metribuzin | 9 | 6 | 21 | 10 | 30 | 16 | 15 | 9 |
| Glyphosate | 10 | 8 | 1 | <0.5 | 11 | 11 | 55 | 55 |
| Isoxaben | 49 | 35 | 7 | 3 | 55 | 7 | 13 | 2 |
| Napropamide | 8 | 6 | 33 | 15 | 41 | 53 | 60 | 68 |
| Pendimethalin | 48 | 34 | 7 | 3 | 54 | 39 | 10 | 5 |
| Propyzamide | 37 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 43 | 32 | 10 | 4 |
| All herbicides/desiccants | 243 | 43 | 118 | 20 | 361 | 192 | 270 | 162 |
| 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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