Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture 2002 Edition
Table C1 Crops, grass and rough grazings on main and minor holdings for each UK country, June 2001
| Scotland | England | Wales | N. Ireland | UK |
Number of holdings (1) | 49,719 | 131,911 | 36,346 | 29,818 | 247,794 |
Crops, fallow and set-aside: | hectares | hectares | hectares | hectares | hectares |
Wheat | 79,713 | 1,540,555 | 10,620 | 4,112 | 1,635,000 |
Triticale | 1,505 | 12,146 | 283 | | 13,934 |
Barley: | Winter | 55,417 | 397,954 | 6,170 | 2,780 | 462,321 |
Spring | 281,383 | 449,887 | 21,254 | 30,018 | 782,542 |
Total | 336,801 | 847,841 | 27,424 | 32,798 | 1,244,864 |
Oats (including mixed grain) (2) | 22,112 | 86,701 | 3,488 | 2,617 | 114,918 |
Rape for oilseed | 34,860 | 367,198 | 1,412 | 121 | 403,591 |
Linseed | 1,499 | 29,125 | 166 | na | 30,790 |
Potatoes | 29,658 | 125,994 | 3,032 | 6,662 | 165,346 |
Peas for combining | 1,906 | 99,990 | 470 | na | 102,366 |
Beans for combining | 2,127 | 169,809 | 1,527 | na | 173,463 |
Turnips, swedes and beet for stockfeeding | 10,593 | 13,262 | 1,807 | 361 | 26,023 |
Other crops for stockfeeding | 13,778 | 17,813 | 3,261 | 2,627 | 37,479 |
Fruit (3) | 1,877 | 33,406 | 611 | 1,488 | 37,382 |
Vegetables (excluding potatoes) | 10,596 | 107,208 | 429 | 1,507 | 119,740 |
Bulbs, other flowers and nursery stock | 885 | 12,378 | 186 | 129 | 13,578 |
All other crops | 3,138 | 321,671 | 9,227 | 1,658 | 335,694 |
Fallow | 11,343 | 30,575 | 983 | na | 42,901 |
Set-aside | 90,063 | 702,653 | 4,885 | 2,867 | 800,468 |
Total crops, fallow and set-aside | 652,453 | 4,518,325 | 69,811 | 56,947 | 5,297,536 |
Grass under 5 years: |
For mowing | 164,905 | nc | nc | nc | na |
For grazing | 156,894 | nc | nc | nc | na |
Total grass under 5 years | 321,798 | 624,276 | 118,847 | 140,154 | 1,205,075 |
Grass 5 years and over: |
For mowing | 159,639 | nc | nc | nc | na |
For grazing | 735,193 | nc | nc | nc | na |
Total grass 5 years and over | 894,833 | 3,014,781 | 974,474 | 699,906 | 5,583,994 |
Total crops, grass, fallow and set-aside | 1,869,084 | 8,157,382 | 1,163,132 | 897,007 | 12,086,605 |
Rough grazing: |
Sole right grazing | 3,375,839 | 676,726 | 227,925 | 154,069 | 4,434,559 |
Common grazing | 583,224 | 427,889 | 180,305 | 34,500 | 1,225,918 |
Total rough grazing | 3,959,062 | 1,104,615 | 408,230 | 188,569 | 5,660,476 |
Crops, set-aside, grass and rough grazing | 5,828,146 | 9,261,997 | 1,571,362 | 1,085,576 | 17,747,081 |
Woodland | 202,854 | 266,286 | 36,714 | 8,182 | 514,036 |
Other land | 64,909 | 198,648 | 14,868 | 8,979 | 287,404 |
Total agricultural area | 6,095,909 | 9,726,931 | 1,622,944 | 1,102,737 | 18,548,521 |
Total land area | 7,708,010 | 12,966,090 | 2,063,630 | 1,348,410 | 24,086,140 |
(1) Refers only to holdings actively engaged in agriculture.
(2) Includes rye for England and Wales.
(3) Includes 49.0 hectares of orchard fruit in Scotland.
nc Information not collected.
na Information not available.
Chart C1: Agricultural area by country, June 2001
