Pesticide usage - soft fruit crops 2018: survey results

Information from a survey of pesticide use on soft fruit crops grown in Scotland during 2018.

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Table 15 Other soft fruit fungicide and sulphur formulations - 2018

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

Fungicides 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
Azoxystrobin 0 0 11 5 11 3 28 7
Boscalid/pyraclostrobin 11 8 46 15 57 19 42 16
Bupirimate 11 8 0 0 11 3 4 2
Cyprodinil/fludioxonil 18 5 169 62 186 94 155 69
Fenhexamid 24 7 127 52 152 93 42 29
Fenpropimorph 63 24 2 1 64 42 23 14
Kresoxim-methyl 30 22 0 0 30 3 0 0
Myclobutanil 5 4 0 0 5 <0.5 26 1
Pyrimethanil 0 0 111 51 111 79 64 43
Quinoxyfen 47 20 0 0 47 6 9 1
All fungicides 209 38 466 85 675 342 414 189
Sulphur 3 2 0 0 3 2 6 25
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)

Contact

Email: psu@sasa.gov.scot

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