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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

Insecticides/acaricides	All blackcurrant 2018			All blackcurrant 2016⁽¹⁾
Insecticides/acaricides	ha	%	kg	ha	kg
Lambda-cyhalothrin	331	61	2	387	4
Pirimicarb	3	1	1	0	0
Spirotetramat	31	6	2	153	11
Tebufenpyrad	2	1	<0.5	0	0
Thiacloprid	529	97	63	345	41
All insecticides/acaricides	896	98	69	943	62
Area grown	282			304

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

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