Publication - Statistics

Pesticide usage - soft fruit crops 2018: survey results

Published: 13 November 2019
Directorate: Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate
Part of: Farming and rural
ISBN: 9781839603068

Information from a survey of pesticide use on soft fruit crops grown in Scotland during 2018.

Pesticide usage in Scotland

Table 24 Census crop areas 2018

Census area (ha) of soft fruit crops grown in Scotland

	Scotland 2018	Scotland 2016	% change
Strawberry	1,133	993	14
Raspberry	271	326	-17
Blackcurrant	279	302	-8
Blueberry	219	132	65
Mixed and other soft fruits	147	122	21
All soft fruit	2,050	1,876	9

Note: Data taken from the 2018 and 2016 June Agricultural Census.

All areas exclude multi-cropping

It was estimated from the crops encountered in the 2018 sample, that 11 ha of the mixed and other soft fruit categories in the census were raspberry, strawberry, blueberry or blackcurrant

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