Pesticide usage in Scotland: arable crops and potato stores 2016

This publication presents information from a survey of pesticide use on arable crops and potato stores in Scotland during 2016.


Table 4 Potato cultivation and storage, comparison with previous surveys - 2016

2012

2014

2016

Area grown (ha) (1)

Seed

13,002

13,300

12,760

Ware

16,534

15,211

14,766

Tonnes stored

Seed

329,427

398,780

415,023

Ware

630,637

747,902

725,263

(1) This is the census area of the crops intended to be grown for seed and ware production. Some of the seed crop was reclassified as ware post-harvest

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