Pesticide usage - soft fruit crops 2018: survey results

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


Table 10 Blackcurrant insecticide and acaricide formulations - 2018

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

Insecticides/acaricides All blackcurrant 2018 All blackcurrant 2016(1)
ha % kg ha kg
Lambda-cyhalothrin 331 61 2 387 4
Pirimicarb 3 1 1 0 0
Spirotetramat 31 6 2 153 11
Tebufenpyrad 2 1 <0.5 0 0
Thiacloprid 529 97 63 345 41
All insecticides/acaricides 896 98 69 943 62
Area grown 282 304

(1) For a full list of formulations recorded in 2016 please refer to the 2016 report(3)

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