Pesticide Usage in Scotland: Outdoor Vegetable Crops 2015
Information from a survey of pesticide use on vegetable crops grown for human consumption in Scotland during 2015.
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Table 11 Vegetables (excluding legumes and leaf brassicas) seed treatment formulations
Area treated (ha), percentage of crop treated and percentage of crop grown from transplants
Seed treatments | Carrots | Turnips & swedes | Other vegetable crops (1) | Total | 2013 | |||
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(ha) | (%) | (ha) | (%) | (ha) | (%) | (ha) | (ha) | |
Bacillus subtilis | 0 | 0 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 486 |
Cymoxanil/fludioxonil/metalaxyl-M | 2,312 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 433 | 59 | 2,745 | 2,025 |
Iprodione | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 43 |
Metalaxyl-M | 317 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 317 | 0 |
Tefluthrin | 1,465 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 1,474 | 1,454 |
Thiamethoxam | 317 | 11 | 407 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 724 | 50 |
Thiram | 317 | 11 | 979 | 65 | 60 | 8 | 1,356 | 1,555 |
Unspecified seed treatment (2) | 0 | 0 | 229 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 229 | 0 |
All seed treatments | 4,729 | 93 | 1,645 | 100 | 504 | 65 | 6,878 | 5,614 |
Crop grown from transplant | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141 | 19 | 141 | 204 |
No seed treatment | 216 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 5 | 252 | 1,381 |
Area grown | 2,908 | 1,503 | 730 | 5,142 | 5,623 |
(1) Other vegetable crops include perennial rhubarb over one year old. Therefore, seed treatment and transplant information was not collected.
(2) Refer to Appendix 3 for definition.
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