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The Section undertakes regular surveys of pesticide usage throughout Scotland covering a wide range of agricultural and horticultural crops and stored products. Detailed quantitative and qualitative information on the use of agricultural pesticides form the essence of published reports. These data provide the regulatory bodies with an important feedback mechanism for the official process of pesticide registration and review. In short, the surveys provide a snapshot of the type, amount and extent of all pesticides used on individual crops during a particular growing season.
A 4-year cycle of surveys ensures that all crops grown in Scotland are covered at least once, with the more important crops such as the arable group, comprising all cereal crops, potatoes and oilseed rape, being surveyed biennially. The reports detail pesticide usage on each crop in terms of weight, area and percentage treated with a specific active ingredient or mixture of ingredients if co-formulated.
Published Reports
During the 2006/07 winter period the pesticide survey group undertook several surveys. The main survey focused on pesticide usage on arable crops covering the 2005/06 growing season. The total recorded area of arable crops in Scotland was 466,851 hectares. Overall for arable crops, fungicides were applied to approximately 2,725,500ha, herbicides to 1,549,400ha and insecticides to 216,200ha, corresponding to 690, 485 and 20 tonnes of active ingredients respectively (herbicide data excludes sulphuric acid).
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