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 24 Census crop areas 2018

Census area (ha) of soft fruit crops grown in Scotland

Scotland 2018 Scotland 2016 % change
Strawberry 1,133 993 14
Raspberry 271 326 -17
Blackcurrant 279 302 -8
Blueberry 219 132 65
Mixed and other soft fruits 147 122 21
All soft fruit 2,050 1,876 9

Note: Data taken from the 2018 and 2016 June Agricultural Census.

All areas exclude multi-cropping

It was estimated from the crops encountered in the 2018 sample, that 11 ha of the mixed and other soft fruit categories in the census were raspberry, strawberry, blueberry or blackcurrant

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