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Table C2 Agricultural area on main and minor holdings by Less Favoured Area category and Highland and Islands Enterprise area, June 2005
| LFA(1) | Non- LFA | Total | HIE(2) |
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Number of holdings | 35,075 | 16,019 | 51,094 | 1,077 |
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Crops, fallow and set-aside: | hectares | hectares | hectares | hectares |
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Wheat | 6,396 | 90,251 | 96,647 | 5,323 |
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Triticale | 399 | 752 | 1,151 | 176 |
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Barley: | Winter | 8,588 | 43,593 | 52,181 | 2,941 |
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Spring | 66,153 | 180,588 | 246,741 | 40,417 |
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Total | 74,741 | 224,181 | 298,922 | 43,358 |
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Oats (including mixed grain) | 6,378 | 14,345 | 20,723 | 4,755 |
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Rape for oilseed | 1,702 | 34,079 | 35,780 | 2,755 |
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Linseed | 203 | 215 | 418 | 130 |
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Potatoes | 1,893 | 26,359 | 28,252 | 2,108 |
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Peas for combining | 149 | 1,253 | 1,401 | 163 |
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Beans for combining | 276 | 3,171 | 3,447 | 66 |
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Lupins | 279 | 500 | 779 | 281 |
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Turnips, swedes and beet for stockfeeding | 4,339 | 3,632 | 7,971 | 2,169 |
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Other crops for stockfeeding (3) | 11,631 | 5,030 | 16,661 | 3,177 |
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Vegetables for human consumption | 584 | 9,984 | 10,568 | 687 |
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Orchard and soft fruit | 108 | 1,613 | 1,721 | 58 |
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Bulbs, flowers and nursery stock | 150 | 836 | 986 | 37 |
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All other crops | 1,527 | 4,420 | 5,947 | 1,313 |
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Fallow | 7,565 | 11,655 | 19,220 | 5,466 |
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Set-aside | 15,107 | 55,033 | 70,140 | 9,375 |
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Total crops, fallow and set-aside | 133,425 | 487,309 | 620,734 | 81,399 |
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Grass under 5 years: |
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For mowing | 107,631 | 53,741 | 161,372 | 41,152 |
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For grazing | 106,621 | 56,630 | 163,251 | 37,033 |
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Total grass under 5 years | 214,252 | 110,371 | 324,623 | 78,185 |
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Grass 5 years and over: |
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For mowing | 127,228 | 28,539 | 155,767 | 36,622 |
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For grazing | 620,375 | 134,258 | 754,632 | 206,886 |
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Total grass 5 years and over | 747,602 | 162,797 | 910,399 | 243,509 |
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Total crops, fallow, grass and set-aside | 1,095,279 | 760,477 | 1,855,756 | 403,093 |
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Rough grazing: |
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Sole right grazing | 3,295,204 | 47,111 | 3,342,315 | 2,110,731 |
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Common grazing | 598,472 | 0 | 598,472 | 597,931 |
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Total rough grazing | 3,893,676 | 47,111 | 3,940,787 | 2,708,662 |
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Total crops, fallow, grass, set-aside and |
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rough grazing | 4,988,956 | 807,588 | 5,796,544 | 3,111,755 |
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Woodland | 203,181 | 34,843 | 238,024 | 119,480 |
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Other land | 57,408 | 23,189 | 80,597 | 33,199 |
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Total agricultural area | 5,249,545 | 865,620 | 6,115,165 | 3,264,434 |
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(1) A holding is classified as LFA if 50% or more of its land is assessed as being disadvantaged or severely disadvantaged for subsidy purposes.
(2) The Highland and Islands Enterprise area covers an area north and west of the Firth of Clyde. From 2001 HIE area includes the whole of Moray.
(3) Includes maize.
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