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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.

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

Fungicides	Non-protected strawberry		Protected strawberry		All strawberry 2018		All strawberry 2016⁽¹⁾
Fungicides	ha	%	ha	%	ha	kg	ha	kg
Azoxystrobin	7	13	874	60	881	220	1,109	276
Azoxystrobin/difenoconazole	0	0	29	2	29	9	0	0
Boscalid/pyraclostrobin	9	29	431	30	440	227	788	333
Bupirimate	0	0	1,233	70	1,233	420	857	297
Chlorothalonil	0	0	82	7	82	82	16	16
Cyflufenamid	0	0	938	63	938	14	70	1
Cyprodinil/fludioxonil	23	54	1,232	67	1,255	777	1,201	747
Difenoconazole/fluxapyroxad	12	20	166	12	178	13	0	0
Dimethomorph	1	3	183	16	184	275	104	155
Fenamidone/fosetyl-aluminium	2	6	579	49	581	1,462	155	399
Fenhexamid	43	67	1,862	95	1,905	1,338	1,227	891
Fenpropimorph	9	31	234	14	243	173	346	251
Fenpyrazamine	4	13	415	28	419	240	0	0
Fluopyram/trifloxystrobin	0	0	1,714	94	1,714	681	0	0
Iprodione	0	0	167	13	167	119	1,078	795
Kresoxim-methyl	7	25	225	18	232	34	242	36
Mepanipyrim	10	35	458	34	469	182	54	22
Fungicides
Meptyldinocap	0	0	87	8	87	18	250	52
Penconazole	17	29	940	73	957	48	177	8
Potassium hydrogen carbonate	0	0	434	16	434	2,573	217	935
Proquinazid	0	0	141	12	141	5	0	0
Pyrimethanil	0	0	689	54	689	517	327	238
Quinoxyfen	3	9	753	38	756	94	768	96
All fungicides	147	71	13,865	100	14,012	9,523	10,593	5,682
Sulphur	0	0	549	18	549	657	339	185
Area grown	30		1,145		1,175		995

(1) For a full list of formulations recorded in 2016 please refer to the 2016 report⁽⁴⁾

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