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 Please do not use the original version of this report as this has now been replaced by the revised 2020 report: Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops – revised 2020.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.


Table 28: Other soft fruit fungicide and sulphur active substances - 2016

Area (ha), Quantity (kg) and percentage of crop treated

Fungicides Non-protected other soft fruit Protected other soft fruit All other soft fruit
(Ha) (%) (Kg) (Ha) (%) (Kg) (Ha) (%) (Kg)
Azoxystrobin 0 0 0 28 15 7 28 11 7
Boscalid 14 11 3 29 15 10 42 14 13
Bupirimate 4 6 2 0 0 0 4 2 2
Copper oxychloride 2 2 2 4 1 4 6 1 6
Cyprodinil 4 6 2 151 56 40 155 42 42
Fenhexamid 15 22 8 28 15 21 42 17 29
Fenpropimorph 23 16 14 0 0 0 23 4 14
Fludioxonil 4 6 1 151 56 27 155 42 28
Myclobutanil 26 23 1 0 0 0 26 6 1
Penconazole 14 10 <0.5 0 0 0 14 3 <0.5
Pyraclostrobin 14 11 1 29 15 2 42 14 3
Pyrimethanil 14 10 3 50 28 40 64 23 43
Quinoxyfen 9 6 1 0 0 0 9 2 1
All fungicides 143 37 41 468 56 150 611 51 189
Sulphur 2 2 9 4 1 15 6 1 25
Area grown 68 180 248

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