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First estimate of cereal harvest
03/10/2002
The Executive's preliminary estimate of the 2002
Scottish cereal harvest is 2.5 million tonnes.
This is down by just over 4 per cent on the 2001
harvest.
An increase in wheat production - due to an increased
area - is more than offset by a decrease in barley
production, due both to a lower yield and smaller cropped
area.
The figures are based on area figures from the
provisional June 2002 census results and an initial
estimate of crop yields. The production estimate will be
finalised with the publication of the 2002 Cereal
Production survey later in the year.
The production estimates for individual cereals are
given below with last year's final figures shown in
brackets per thousand tonnes:-
Wheat
2002 - 728
2001 - 617
Barley
Winter
2002 - 408
2001 - 345
Spring
2002 - 1292
2001 - 1571
Total
2002 - 1700
2001 - 1916
Oats & other cereals
2002 - 121
2001 - 124
TOTAL CEREALS
2002 - 2549
2001 - 2657
Oilseed Rape
2002 - 108
2001 - (106)
Wheat yields (tonnes per hectare) are provisionally
estimated to be 3 per cent down on last year's cereal
production survey results. The wheat area sown is up by
almost 22 per cent on last year. Barley yields are 8 per
cent lower with the cropped area down by over 3 per cent.
Oat yield fell by almost 2 per cent while the area grown
rose by 2 per cent. Oilseed rape yields increased by 18
per cent but the area grown decreased by 14 per cent
compared with 2001 perhaps reflecting a drop in subsidy
levels this year as part of the Agenda 2000 reforms of the
Common Agricultural Policy.
Totals may not necessary agree with the sum of their
components due to rounding.