Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture: 2005 Edition

Table C3 Area of crops and number of holdings with crops on main and minor holdings by region, June 2004

	North West	North East	South East	South West	Scotland
	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings	holdings
Wheat	158	619	1,821	366	2,964
Barley	1,295	3,213	3,096	1,768	9,372
Oats	537	490	530	242	1,799
Other cereals	172	55	46	65	338
Rape for oilseed and linseed	122	583	892	63	1,660
Potatoes	1,408	672	1,422	221	3,723
Peas and beans for combining	15	30	231	24	300
Fodder crops	1,231	1,108	977	770	4,086
Vegetables for human consumption	623	218	593	139	1,573
Fruit ⁽¹⁾	157	74	186	105	522
Bulbs, flowers and nursery stock	52	52	85	48	237
Other crops	301	234	355	233	1,123
Crops, fallow and set-aside	4,337	4,199	4,242	2,930	15,708
Grass for mowing	5,850	3,837	3,400	5,960	19,047
Grass for grazing	12,252	6,386	6,383	10,251	35,272
Rough grazing	10,258	2,725	2,690	5,286	20,959
	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares	hectares
Wheat	4,207	14,576	76,124	6,822	101,729
Barley	26,021	121,282	132,854	36,298	316,455
Oats	3,582	5,787	10,218	2,441	22,028
Other cereals	191	379	429	606	1,606
Rape for oilseed and linseed	2,360	14,898	21,493	1,285	40,036
Potatoes	1,280	5,855	21,176	1,102	29,413
Peas and beans for combining	150	357	3,598	282	4,386
Fodder crops	3,835	6,129	8,692	6,606	25,261
Vegetables for human consumption	356	1,339	8,793	190	10,678
Fruit ⁽¹⁾	46	75	1,543	75	1,739
Bulbs, flowers and nursery stock	15	401	510	47	973
Other crops	1,042	1,327	2,751	680	5,799
Crops, fallow and set-aside	52,357	200,275	326,177	64,479	643,288
Grass for mowing	54,484	59,153	61,996	146,452	322,085
Grass for grazing	174,749	134,731	208,843	384,289	902,613
Rough grazing	1,669,289	222,985	575,594	861,619	3,329,487
Common grazing	581,832	*	*	10,544	599,051

(1) Soft fruit and orchard fruit.
* data suppressed to prevent disclosure of individual holdings.

Chart C2: Agricultural land use on main and minor holdings, Scotland, 1995 to 2004

Page updated: Wednesday, June 22, 2005

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