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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.
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Table 11 Vegetables (excluding vining peas and leaf brassicas) fungicide formulations - 2021
Area (ha), weight (kg) and percentage of crop treated
| Fungicides | Carrots | Turnips & swedes | Other vegetable crops(1) | Total 2021 | Total 2021 | 2019(2) | 2019(2) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ha | % | ha | % | ha | % | ha | kg | ha | kg | |
| Azoxystrobin | 2,360 | 42 | 1,136 | 59 | 2,639 | 85 | 6,135 | 1,278 | 6,292 | 1,096 |
| Azoxystrobin/difenoconazole | 1,610 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 98 | 3 | 1,708 | 468 | 3,219 | 898 |
| Benthiavalicarb/oxathiapiprolin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 218 | 4 | 218 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Benthiavalicarb isopropyl/mancozeb | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 109 | 4 | 109 | 125 | 0 | 0 |
| Boscalid/pyraclostrobin | 3,235 | 70 | 1,088 | 33 | 2,550 | 84 | 6,874 | 2,107 | 3,928 | 1,298 |
| Cyprodinil/fludioxonil | 3,518 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 4,615 | 79 | 8,133 | 4,657 | 2,412 | 1,205 |
| Dimethomorph/mancozeb | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 109 | 4 | 109 | 199 | 84 | 125 |
| Fluopicolide/propamocarb hydrochloride | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 3 | 97 | 101 | 12 | 14 |
| Fluoxastrobin/prothioconazole | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 327 | 4 | 327 | 82 | 0 | 0 |
| Isopyrazam | 2,535 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,535 | 317 | 4,791 | 598 |
| Mancozeb | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 327 | 4 | 327 | 490 | 256 | 353 |
| Mandipropamid | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 2 | 86 | 13 | 68 | 10 |
| Metalaxyl-M | 1,536 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,536 | 898 | 1,673 | 940 |
| Oxathiapiprolin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 126 | 4 | 126 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Prothioconazole | 3,879 | 70 | 1,141 | 33 | 288 | 3 | 5,308 | 1,017 | 6,503 | 1,241 |
| Tebuconazole | 535 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 535 | 119 | 355 | 71 |
| Tebuconazole/trifloxystrobin | 2,152 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 98 | 3 | 2,250 | 511 | 1,012 | 206 |
| All fungicides | 21,361 | 71 | 3,364 | 77 | 11,688 | 88 | 36,413 | 12,395 | 33,587 | 9,817 |
| Area grown (ha) | 3,449 | 1,933 | 2,945 | 8,327 | 5,641 | |||||
(1) In 2021 other vegetable crops included broad beans, leeks, lettuce, celery, fennel, French beans, French dwarf beans, Jerusalem artichoke, pumpkin, runner beans, spring onions, beetroot, chard, parsnips, onions and rhubarb
(2) For full list of formulations recorded in 2019 please refer to the 2019 report(3)
Note: No sulphur was encountered on vegetables in 2021
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