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Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops
Published:
31 Oct 2017
This publication presents information from a survey of pesticide use on soft fruit crops grown in Scotland during 2016.
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Supporting files
Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops
Appendix 1: Estimated application tables
Appendix 1: Estimated application tables
Table 1: Percentage of each crop treated with pesticides and mean number of spray applications - 2016
| All Strawberry | All Raspberry | All Blackcurrant | All other soft fruit | All soft fruit | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | sp apps | % | sp apps | % | sp apps | % | sp apps | % | sp apps | |
| Insecticides/acaricides | 92 | 3.0 | 81 | 1.6 | 92 | 2.4 | 81 | 2.5 | 88 | 2.6 |
| Molluscicides | 20 | 1.3 | <0.5 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 9 | 1.9 | 12 | 1.3 |
| Biologicals (1) | 43 | 2.7 | 16 | 1.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 34 | 2.9 | 30 | 2.6 |
| Fungicides | 94 | 7.2 | 87 | 4.0 | 87 | 5.3 | 51 | 3.1 | 86 | 6.0 |
| Sulphur | 18 | 1.9 | 10 | 1.0 | 68 | 2.0 | 1 | 2.0 | 23 | 1.8 |
| Herbicides | 52 | 2.2 | 72 | 1.8 | 91 | 1.6 | 53 | 1.4 | 62 | 1.9 |
| Physical control | 1 | 2.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2.1 |
| Any pesticide | 96 | 11.3 | 92 | 6.4 | 99 | 8.1 | 84 | 5.8 | 94 | 9.3 |
Cont…
Table 1: Percentage of each crop treated with pesticides and mean number of spray applications - 2016
| Non-protected strawberry | Protected Strawberry | Non-protected raspberry | Protected raspberry | Non-protected other soft fruit | Protected other soft fruit | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | sp apps | % | sp apps | % | sp apps | % | sp apps | % | sp apps | % | sp apps | |
| Insecticides/acaricides | 2 | 1.0 | 99 | 3.0 | 52 | 1.1 | >99 | 1.7 | 31 | 1.4 | >99 | 2.6 |
| Molluscicides | 2 | 2.0 | 21 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.0 | <0.5 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 12 | 1.9 |
| Biologicals (1) | 0 | 0.0 | 47 | 2.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 26 | 1.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 46 | 2.9 |
| Fungicides | 38 | 2.6 | 99 | 7.3 | 69 | 4.2 | 99 | 3.9 | 37 | 3.9 | 56 | 2.9 |
| Sulphur | 0 | 0.0 | 20 | 1.9 | 26 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 2.0 | 1 | 2.0 |
| Herbicides | 25 | 2.9 | 54 | 2.2 | 81 | 2.1 | 67 | 1.5 | 36 | 1.6 | 59 | 1.3 |
| Physical control | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Any pesticide | 41 | 4.3 | >99 | 11.6 | 81 | 6.0 | >99 | 6.6 | 41 | 4.9 | 100 | 6.0 |
Note: (1) Biologicals include biopesticides and biological control agents
The average number of spray applications is calculated only on the areas using each pesticide group and therefore the minimum number of applications is always going to be one (see appendix 3 – definitions and notes for details)