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Pesticide usage - soft fruit crops 2018: survey results
Information from a survey of pesticide use on soft fruit crops grown in Scotland during 2018.
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Table 13 Other soft fruit insecticide and acaricide formulations - 2018
Area (ha), weight (kg) and percentage of crop treated
| Insecticides/acaricides | Non-protected other soft fruit | Protected other soft fruit | All other soft fruit 2018(1) | All other soft fruit 2016(2) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ha | % | ha | % | ha | kg | ha | kg | |
| Abamectin | 0 | 0 | 19 | 7 | 19 | <0.5 | 25 | <0.5 |
| Chlorantraniliprole | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 9 | <0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Etoxazole | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | <0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Indoxacarb | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 9 | <0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Lambda-cyhalothrin | 8 | 5 | 82 | 32 | 90 | 1 | 57 | <0.5 |
| Pirimicarb | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Pymetrozine | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Pyrethrins | 0 | 0 | 197 | 51 | 197 | 10 | 125 | 8 |
| Spinosad | 0 | 0 | 85 | 28 | 85 | 8 | 7 | 1 |
| Tebufenpyrad | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | <0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Thiacloprid | 10 | 7 | 247 | 74 | 257 | 30 | 268 | 32 |
| All insecticides/acaricides | 26 | 17 | 661 | 91 | 687 | 53 | 494 | 42 |
| Area grown | 139 | 218 | 356 | 248 | ||||
(1) In 2018 other soft fruit crops included blueberry, blackberry, gooseberry, redcurrant, aronia, honeyberry, japanese wineberry, jostaberry, loganberry, tayberry, tummelberry, whitecurrant and worcesterberry
(2) For a full list of formulations recorded in 2016 please refer to the 2016 report(3)
Contact
Email: psu@sasa.gov.scot