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Pesticide usage in Scotland: Outdoor Vegetable Crops 2021

This publication presents information from a survey of pesticide use on outdoor vegetable crops in Scotland during 2021.

Table 6 Leaf brassica insecticide and molluscicide formulations - 2021

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

Insecticides	Brussels sprouts		Calabrese		Other brassica crops⁽¹⁾		Total 2021	Total 2021	2019⁽²⁾	2019⁽²⁾
	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	kg	ha	kg
Acetamiprid	762	65	0	0	0	0	762	38	755	38
Cyantraniliprole	306	26	0	0	0	0	306	23	0	0
Deltamethrin	1,344	65	0	0	0	0	1,344	10	847	6
Flonicamid	1,486	70	0	0	0	0	1,486	104	0	0
Indoxacarb	1,524	65	350	20	0	0	1,874	48	4,719	120
Lambda-cyhalothrin	3,305	98	0	0	0	0	3,305	18	3,086	17
Spinosad	0	0	1,428	40	0	0	1,428	137	1,504	144
Spirotetramat	2,260	100	0	0	0	0	2,260	170	1,767	132
All insecticides	10,988	100	1,779	60	0	0	12,767	548	16,767	1,028
Molluscicides
Ferric phosphate	5,097	100	382	21	992	50	6,472	1,017	5,051	745
Metaldehyde	3,104	65	0	0	0	0	3,104	455	2,716	407
All molluscicides	8,201	100	382	21	992	50	9,575	1,472	7,767	1,153
Area grown (ha)	1,173		1,786		1,322		4,281		3,048

(1) Other brassica crops include cabbage (summer/autumn, winter, red & Chinese), cauliflower, purple sprouting broccoli and kale

(2) For full list of formulations recorded in 2019 please refer to the 2019 report⁽³⁾

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