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Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops
A revised version of this report has been issued to correct inaccuracies in active substance application weight data that were overestimated in the original report. This issue only affects certain herbicide active substances in relation to quantity applied. Please do not use the original version of this report as this has now been replaced by the revised 2020 report: Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops – revised 2020.
This publication presents information from a survey of pesticide use on soft fruit crops grown in Scotland during 2016.
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)