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Pesticide usage in Scotland: arable crops and potato stores 2016
This publication presents information from a survey of pesticide use on arable crops and potato stores in Scotland during 2016.
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Table 7 Winter oilseed rape insecticide and molluscicide formulations - 2016
Area (ha) and percentage of crop treated
| Insecticides |
Winter oilseed rape |
2014 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| (ha) |
(%) |
(ha) |
|
| Acetamiprid |
168 |
1 |
0 |
| Alpha-cypermethrin |
1,399 |
5 |
2,896 |
| Cypermethrin |
985 |
3 |
2,219 |
| Deltamethrin |
326 |
1 |
402 |
| Indoxacarb |
589 |
2 |
0 |
| Lambda-cyhalothrin |
22,438 |
43 |
16,339 |
| Tau-fluvalinate |
11,035 |
32 |
16,290 |
| Thiacloprid |
1,856 |
6 |
0 |
| Zeta-cypermethrin |
4,986 |
17 |
9,842 |
| All insecticides |
43,782 |
79 |
47,987 |
| Molluscicides |
|||
| Ferric Phosphate |
1,187 |
4 |
1,306 |
| Metaldehyde |
14,353 |
39 |
12,887 |
| Methiocarb |
694 |
2 |
3,905 |
| All molluscicides |
16,234 |
43 |
18,098 |
| Area grown |
30,142 |
36,419 |
|