{"version":"1","article":{"id":"scotland-vegetable-crop-pesticide-treated-area-rises-13-percent","slug":"scotland-vegetable-crop-pesticide-treated-area-rises-13-percent","language":"en","url":"https://haberpaper.com/en/news/scotland-vegetable-crop-pesticide-treated-area-rises-13-percent","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/scotland-vegetable-crop-pesticide-treated-area-rises-13-percent?lang=en","title":"Scotland’s cumulative pesticide-treatment area on vegetables rises 13%","summary":"The 2025 survey counted 188,500 treatment-hectares, including repeated applications, over 22,673 hectares of planted land; it is not a unique land-area measure.","category":"agriculture","region":"world","topics":["food","statistics"],"published_at":"2026-10-10T18:32:52+03:00","modified_at":"2026-10-10T18:32:52+03:00","publication_basis":"publication-record","event_period":"2025-12","event_period_basis":"event-or-reference-period","sources":[{"name":"Scottish Government / Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture","url":"https://www.gov.scot/publications/pesticide-usage-scotland-outdoor-vegetable-crops-2025/","publishedAt":"2026-10-07","checkedAt":"2026-10-10"}],"translations":[{"language":"tr","url":"https://haberpaper.com/tr/news/scotland-vegetable-crop-pesticide-treated-area-rises-13-percent","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/scotland-vegetable-crop-pesticide-treated-area-rises-13-percent?lang=tr"},{"language":"en","url":"https://haberpaper.com/en/news/scotland-vegetable-crop-pesticide-treated-area-rises-13-percent","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/scotland-vegetable-crop-pesticide-treated-area-rises-13-percent?lang=en"},{"language":"ar","url":"https://haberpaper.com/ar/news/scotland-vegetable-crop-pesticide-treated-area-rises-13-percent","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/scotland-vegetable-crop-pesticide-treated-area-rises-13-percent?lang=ar"},{"language":"fr","url":"https://haberpaper.com/fr/news/scotland-vegetable-crop-pesticide-treated-area-rises-13-percent","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/scotland-vegetable-crop-pesticide-treated-area-rises-13-percent?lang=fr"},{"language":"es","url":"https://haberpaper.com/es/news/scotland-vegetable-crop-pesticide-treated-area-rises-13-percent","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/scotland-vegetable-crop-pesticide-treated-area-rises-13-percent?lang=es"}],"data_types":[],"data":null,"data_compilations":[],"data_downloads":[],"content":{"paragraphs":["A Scottish Government survey of pesticide use on outdoor vegetables in 2025 estimates 188,500 treatment-hectares across a planted area of 22,673 hectares. The measure sums separate or repeated pesticide applications to the same land; it does not mean 188,500 distinct hectares of fields. The cumulative total was 13% above the 166,100 treatment-hectares reported for 2023 and 26% above 2021. An estimated 93% of the planted area received at least one pesticide treatment.","The estimated weight applied was 64.9 tonnes, 7% higher than in 2023. Adjusted for crop area, the survey recorded 8.3 treated hectares and 2.9 kilograms of pesticide per hectare grown. The estimates come from a sample of 89 holdings representing 12% of crop area; relative standard errors were 6% for treated area and 7% for weight. The report cautions that this was not a census of all farms and may be affected by grower record-keeping and non-response bias."],"key_points":[],"sections":[]},"text":"The 2025 survey counted 188,500 treatment-hectares, including repeated applications, over 22,673 hectares of planted land; it is not a unique land-area measure.\n\nA Scottish Government survey of pesticide use on outdoor vegetables in 2025 estimates 188,500 treatment-hectares across a planted area of 22,673 hectares. The measure sums separate or repeated pesticide applications to the same land; it does not mean 188,500 distinct hectares of fields. The cumulative total was 13% above the 166,100 treatment-hectares reported for 2023 and 26% above 2021. An estimated 93% of the planted area received at least one pesticide treatment.\n\nThe estimated weight applied was 64.9 tonnes, 7% higher than in 2023. Adjusted for crop area, the survey recorded 8.3 treated hectares and 2.9 kilograms of pesticide per hectare grown. The estimates come from a sample of 89 holdings representing 12% of crop area; relative standard errors were 6% for treated area and 7% for weight. The report cautions that this was not a census of all farms and may be affected by grower record-keeping and non-response bias.","corrections":[],"editorial_illustration":{"kind":"symbolic-editorial-illustration","documentary":false,"scope":"section","asset_id":"agriculture","url":"https://haberpaper.com/assets/illustrations/agriculture-1536.webp","width":1536,"height":1024,"alt":"Symbolic agricultural landscape with wheat, olive trees and irrigation channels.","language":"en"},"section_illustration":{"kind":"symbolic-editorial-illustration","documentary":false,"scope":"section","asset_id":"agriculture","url":"https://haberpaper.com/assets/illustrations/agriculture-1536.webp","width":1536,"height":1024,"alt":"Symbolic agricultural landscape with wheat, olive trees and irrigation channels.","language":"en"}}}