Pesticide usage in Scotland: Grassland and Fodder Crops 2021

This publication presents information from a survey of pesticide use on grassland and fodder crops in Scotland during 2021.


Table 20: Sampled area of grassland - 2021

Area (ha) of grassland and rough grazing in the sample

  H&I(1) C&O(1) Moray Firth Abdn(1) Angus East Fife Lothian Central Low-lands Tweed Valley S. Uplands(1) Solway Scotland
Grassland 9,647 7,128 3,490 6,538 1,993 1,118 1,893 12,676 8,126 11,081 10,431 74,119
Rough grazing 9,413 6,925 3,230 6,390 1,931 1,024 1,850 12,413 7,887 10,886 10,057 72,005

(1) H&I = Highlands & Islands, C&O = Caithness & Orkney, Abdn = Aberdeen, S. Uplands = Southern Uplands.

(2) These areas do not include the estimated 7,563 hectares of undersown grass as this is not recorded on the census (refer to Appendix 3).

Note: data taken from the 2021 June Agricultural Census(13).

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