Appendix Agri-environment Statistics
Table 2.4: Average agri-environment payments and number of recipients
Average Payments by NUTS 3 Region | CPS | OAS | RSS | ESA | Total1 |
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Payment | Recipients | Payment | Recipients | Payment | Recipients | Payment | Recipients | Payment | Recipients |
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Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire & NE Moray | 2,861 | 173 | 5,932 | 44 | 4,389 | 664 | 5,143 | 28 | 4,196 | 909 |
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Lochaber, Skye & Lochalsh and Argyll & the Islands | 5,115 | 157 | 5,838 | 37 | 3,227 | 264 | 3,762 | 319 | 3,952 | 777 |
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Shetland Islands | 0 | 0 | 3,438 | 16 | 1,929 | 14 | 3,052 | 724 | 3,040 | 754 |
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Dumfries & Galloway | 3,130 | 100 | 7,307 | 75 | 3,708 | 195 | 5,997 | 349 | 5,114 | 719 |
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Borders | 3,593 | 86 | 8,985 | 66 | 5,351 | 302 | 5,090 | 245 | 5,386 | 699 |
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Perth & Kinross and Stirling | 4,008 | 120 | 9,935 | 62 | 3,963 | 243 | 4,309 | 139 | 4,715 | 564 |
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Western Isles | 7,353 | 17 | * | * | 2,167 | 54 | 1,653 | 372 | * | * |
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Caithness & Sutherland and Ross & Cromarty | 3,962 | 105 | 7,150 | 20 | 4,097 | 236 | 0 | 0 | 4,227 | 361 |
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Inverness & Nairn and Moray, Badenoch & Strathspey | 5,345 | 29 | 7,818 | 22 | 4,548 | 126 | 5,620 | 121 | 5,302 | 298 |
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South Lanarkshire | 4,000 | 43 | 6,615 | 39 | 3,694 | 85 | 7,476 | 63 | 5,283 | 230 |
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Orkney Islands | 3,667 | 102 | 5,500 | 6 | 4,769 | 108 | * | * | * | * |
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E & North Ayrshire Mainland | 2,947 | 19 | 4,889 | 9 | 4,769 | 91 | * | * | * | * |
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East & Midlothian | 3,156 | 32 | 10,231 | 13 | 5,417 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 5,333 | 117 |
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South Ayrshire | 3,067 | 15 | * | * | 4,776 | 58 | 4,000 | 39 | * | * |
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Clackmannanshire & Fife | 3,317 | 41 | 0 | * | 3,261 | 69 | 0 | 0 | * | * |
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Angus & Dundee City | 4,071 | 28 | 0 | * | 4,889 | 63 | 0 | 0 | * | * |
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E & W Dunbartonshire & Helensburgh & Lomond | 4,000 | 10 | 0 | * | 3,107 | 28 | 4,179 | 28 | * | * |
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Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire & Renfrewshire | 3,600 | 20 | * | * | 3,526 | 19 | 0 | 0 | * | * |
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North Lanarkshire | * | * | * | * | 2,286 | 7 | 0 | 0 | * | * |
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Falkirk | * | * | 0 | 0 | 2,500 | 6 | 0 | 0 | * | * |
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West Lothian | 3,200 | 5 | 0 | * | 0 | * | 0 | 0 | * | * |
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City of Edinburgh | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
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Glasgow City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | * | * | 0 | 0 | * | * |
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Scotland Total | 3,819 | 1,117 | 7,573 | 443 | 4,230 | 2,713 | 3,945 | 2,452 | 4,278 | 6,725 |
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1. Total refers to the value for grant application. Numbers of recipient farms may be less if the farm has been awarded funds under more than 1 scheme. This has not been accounted for in the statistics.
- Figures suppressed for confidentiality. Total average payment and number of recipients not able to be calculated without the suppressed figures.
General Requirements on Participants
Participants to all the agri-environment schemes are required to conform to the Standard of Good Agricultural Practice ( SGAP), along with a range of General Environmental Conditions ( GEC's). Participants are advised of these when accepted into the scheme. Under SGAP there are 13 verifiable standards that have a legal basis which are required to be adhered to during participation in the agri-environment scheme.
The detail of COGAP and the GEC's are available within the scheme literature but some examples of their actions include:
- Managing grazing on rough grazings, unimproved grassland, machair and dune grassland, wetlands and native, amenity or semi-natural woodlands to ensure no over or under grazing
- No application of pesticides, lime, fertiliser (inc. farmyard manure and slurry) on rough grazings, unimproved grassland, machair and dune grassland, wetlands, water margins, and native, amenity or semi-natural woodlands.
- No new drainage works, ploughing, clearing, levelling, reseeding or cultivating on the above areas. In addition, livestock must be managed to avoid poaching.
- Control of injurious weeds
- Carry out muirburn in accordance with approved guidelines
- Avoid damaging features or areas of historic or archaeological interest
- Follow the code of good practice for the prevention of pollution from agricultural activity
- Limitations on timing of hedge cutting
- Notify SNH of any potentially damaging operations on SSSI land
- Ensure that SEPA are informed of any new silage or slurry storage facilities and that they are informed before sheep dip is disposed on your land
Whilst there is no specific payment made to farmers who sign up to these conditions, it is clear that they create an overall additional environmental benefit on top of the specific annual and capital scheme measures funded through the SRDP.