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Pesticide usage - arable crops and potato stores 2018: survey results

Information from a survey of pesticide use on arable crops and potato stores in Scotland during 2018.

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

Fungicides	Seed potatoes		Ware potatoes		Total 2018	Total 2018	2016⁽¹⁾	2016⁽¹⁾
Fungicides	ha	%	ha	%	ha	kg	ha	kg
Ametoctradin/dimethomorph	9,325	55	11,269	40	20,594	8,650	15,299	6,403
Amisulbrom	10,148	46	15,169	41	25,318	2,210	18,082	1,787
Azoxystrobin	0	0	2,907	14	2,907	972	4,098	2,531
Benthiavalicarb isopropyl/mancozeb	6,097	34	3,214	16	9,311	10,612	9,039	10,313
Chlorothalonil/cymoxanil	0	0	178	1	178	152	299	254
Cyazofamid	24,191	83	30,339	89	54,530	4,382	62,104	4,958
Cymoxanil	6,485	26	15,215	36	21,699	1,982	60,143	4,893
Cymoxanil/fluazinam	3,080	25	413	3	3,493	749	5,842	1,825
Cymoxanil/mancozeb	17,872	60	41,472	83	59,343	74,762	53,813	69,219
Cymoxanil/mandipropamid	330	3	1,404	4	1,734	446	2,534	648
Cymoxanil/propamocarb hydrochloride	1,843	12	2,903	8	4,746	4,276	9,927	8,565
Cymoxanil/zoxamide	0	0	323	2	323	96	4,773	1,290
Difenoconazole/mandipropamid	0	0	886	3	886	266	2,331	699
Dimethomorph	817	3	2,301	8	3,118	468	0	0
Dimethomorph/fluazinam	0	0	1,156	8	1,156	347	3,531	1,063
Dimethomorph/mancozeb	4,339	36	6,325	35	10,663	18,628	13,549	23,250
Dimethomorph/zoxamide	3,032	24	4,754	18	7,786	2,677	0	0

Cont…

Table 12: Potato fungicide formulations – 2018 continued

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

Fungicides	Seed potatoes		Ware potatoes		Total 2018	Total 2018	2016⁽¹⁾	2016⁽¹⁾
Fungicides	ha	%	ha	%	ha	kg	ha	kg
Fenamidone/propamocarb hydrochloride	1,858	15	367	2	2,224	1,990	5,242	4,651
Fluopicolide/propamocarb hydrochloride	5,646	28	8,335	29	13,981	14,592	11,718	12,359
Mancozeb	3,998	10	3,661	12	7,659	8,749	4,141	4,028
Mancozeb/metalaxyl-M	0	0	178	1	178	230	74	95
Mancozeb/zoxamide	365	3	426	3	791	1,068	1,874	2,077
Mandipropamid	15,877	80	14,256	40	30,132	4,346	35,131	5,110
Oxathiapiprolin	4,265	25	5,835	25	10,100	149	0	0
All fungicides	122,259	89	184,668	98	306,927	166,694	370,696	175,215
Area grown	12,091		15,268		27,359		27,526

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

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