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 Please do not use the original version of this report as this has now been replaced by the revised 2020 report: Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops – revised 2020.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 34: Principal active substance by weight - 2016

Quantity (kg) of the 20 most used active substances on all soft fruit crops surveyed

Active substance Type (1) 2016 2014 % change
1 Sulphur SU 3,687 5,913 -38
2 Napropamide H 1,261 587 115
3 Fenhexamid F 1,211 1,446 -16
4 Potassium hydrogen carbonate F 935 4,527 -79
5 Iprodione F 876 1,051 -17
6 Cyprodinil F 646 688 -6
7 Diquat H 595 882 -33
8 Pendimethalin H 440 443 -1
9 Fludioxonil F 431 459 -6
10 Boscalid F 419 385 9
11 Glyphosate H 370 172 115
12 Fosetyl-aluminium F 363 215 69
13 Pyrimethanil F 350 497 -30
14 Dimethomorph F 312 293 6
15 Bupirimate F 306 408 -25
16 Azoxystrobin F 297 344 -14
17 Fenpropimorph F 273 365 -25
18 Propyzamide H 243 74 228
19 Myclobutanil F 180 220 -18
20 Thiacloprid I 140 100 40

(1) Pesticide type = F: Fungicide, H: Herbicide, I: Insecticide, SU: Sulphur

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