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Table C1 Crops, grass and rough grazings on
main and minor holdings for each
UK country, June 2004
| Scotland | England | Wales | N. Ireland | UK |
|---|
Number of holdings(1) | 50,761 | 192,824 | 35,855 | 27,614 | 307,054 |
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Crops, fallow and
set-aside: | hectares | hectares | hectares | hectares | hectares |
|---|
Wheat | 101,729 | 1,864,591 | 15,423 | 8,634 | 1,990,377 |
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Triticale | 1,284 | 13,104 | na | 225 | na |
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Barley: Winter | 56,790 | 350,923 | 8,643 | 4,519 | 420,875 |
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Spring | 259,665 | 291,439 | 15,623 | 22,492 | 589,219 |
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Total | 316,455 | 642,362 | 24,266 | 27,011 | 1,010,094 |
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Oats (including mixed grain)
(2) | 22,351 | 88,660 | 4,705 | 2,640 | 118,356 |
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Rape for oilseed | 39,398 | 455,425 | 3,388 | 255 | 498,467 |
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Linseed and flax
(3) | 638 | 30,331 | 508 | 2 | 31,479 |
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Potatoes | 29,413 | 111,510 | 2,139 | 5,665 | 148,727 |
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Peas for combining | 1,584 | 60,696 | na | nc | na |
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Beans for combining | 2,802 | 175,035 | na | nc | na |
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Lupins | 691 | nc | nc | nc | 691 |
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Turnips, swedes and beet for
stockfeeding | 8,813 | 8,710 | na | 216 | na |
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Other crops for stockfeeding | 15,757 | 19,625 | na | 3,414 | na |
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Fruit
(4) | 1,739 | 29,700 | 564 | 1,540 | 33,543 |
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Vegetables (excluding potatoes) | 10,678 | 112,395 | 462 | 1,388 | 124,923 |
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Bulbs, other flowers and nursery stock | 973 | 13,400 | 286 | 142 | 14,801 |
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All other crops | 4,826 | 285,887 | 17,172 | 2,700 | 310,585 |
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Fallow | 8,519 | 19,936 | 856 | nc | 29,311 |
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Set-aside | 75,638 | 476,381 | 4,471 | 3,388 | 559,878 |
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Total crops, fallow and
set-aside | 643,288 | 4,407,748 | 74,240 | 57,220 | 5,182,496 |
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Grass under 5 years: |
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For mowing | 164,918 | nc | nc | nc | na |
|---|
For grazing | 157,268 | nc | nc | nc | na |
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Total grass under 5 years | 322,186 | 674,316 | 107,628 | 141,827 | 1,245,957 |
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Grass 5 years and over: | | | | | |
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For mowing | 157,167 | nc | nc | nc | na |
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For grazing | 745,345 | nc | nc | nc | na |
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Total grass 5 years and
over | 902,512 | 3,011,458 | 1,009,657 | 696,659 | 5,620,286 |
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Total crops, fallow, set-aside and
grass | 1,867,986 | 8,093,522 | 1,191,525 | 895,706 | 12,048,739 |
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Rough grazing: |
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Sole right grazing | 3,329,487 | 643,399 | 201,971 | 151,234 | 4,326,091 |
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Common grazing | 599,051 | 427,889 | 180,305 | 29,618 | 1,236,863 |
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Total rough grazing | 3,928,538 | 1,071,288 | 382,276 | 180,852 | 5,562,954 |
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Total crops, fallow, set-aside,
grass and rough |
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grazing | 5,796,524 | 9,164,810 | 1,573,801 | 1,076,558 | 17,611,693 |
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Woodland | 238,955 | 274,055 | 41,723 | 8,247 | 562,980 |
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Other land | 80,677 | 155,919 | 17,930 | 7,626 | 262,152 |
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Total agricultural area | 6,116,157 | 9,594,784 | 1,633,454 | 1,092,431 | 18,436,825 |
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Total land area(5) | 7,710,000 | 12,972,000 | 2,076,800 | 1,348,000 | 24,106,800 |
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(1) Refers only to holdings actively engaged in
agriculture but excludes sheep stock clubs in Scotland.
(2) Includes rye for England and Wales and triticale
for Wales.
(3) Flax not collected for Scotland in 2004.
(4) Includes 44.04 hectares of orchard fruit in
Scotland.
(5) As at January 2001. Data source: e-Digest of
Environmental Statistics, published by
DEFRA, October 2004.
na Information not available. nc Information not
collected.
Chart C1: Agricultural area on
main and minor holdings by country, June 2004
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