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Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture, 2016
Presents an overall picture of Scottish agriculture using data from the various agricultural surveys that RESAS manage.
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Table C1 Number of holdings by region, subregion and farm type (1), June 2015
holdings
| Farm type | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Specialist cereals | General cropping | Specialist horticulture & permanent crops | Specialist pigs | Specialist poultry | Specialist dairy | LFA cattle & sheep | Non-LFA cattle & sheep | Mixed holdings | General cropping; forage | Unclassified | Total | |
| North West: | 254 | 222 | 220 | 91 | 296 | 30 | 7,488 | 114 | 1,188 | 10,156 | 537 | 20,596 |
| Shetland | c | c | 12 | c | 17 | c | 1,123 | 0 | 100 | 534 | 12 | 1,806 |
| Orkney | 40 | c | 16 | c | 41 | 13 | 707 | 0 | 146 | 958 | 41 | 1,980 |
| Na h-Eileanan Siar | c | 101 | 74 | 15 | 70 | c | 2,316 | c | 236 | 3,522 | 117 | 6,460 |
| Highland | 207 | 114 | 118 | 61 | 168 | c | 3,342 | c | 706 | 5,142 | 367 | 10,350 |
| North East: | 1,083 | 181 | 83 | 61 | 140 | 30 | 1,254 | 879 | 1,472 | 3,352 | 349 | 8,884 |
| Grampian | 1,083 | 181 | 83 | 61 | 140 | 30 | 1,254 | 879 | 1,472 | 3,352 | 349 | 8,884 |
| South East: | 1,008 | 469 | 182 | 64 | 189 | 53 | 1,341 | 771 | 1,354 | 3,480 | 305 | 9,216 |
| Tayside | 294 | 348 | 90 | 15 | 70 | 11 | 450 | 257 | 511 | 1,501 | 120 | 3,667 |
| Fife | 202 | 62 | 46 | 13 | 44 | 17 | 53 | 175 | 282 | 577 | 59 | 1,530 |
| Lothian | 252 | 34 | 28 | 18 | 39 | 15 | 160 | 139 | 223 | 537 | 59 | 1,504 |
| Scottish Borders | 260 | 25 | 18 | 18 | 36 | 10 | 678 | 200 | 338 | 865 | 67 | 2,515 |
| South West: | 232 | 24 | 136 | 69 | 270 | 673 | 4,463 | 683 | 1,308 | 5,318 | 431 | 13,607 |
| East Central | 91 | c | 7 | 9 | 38 | 26 | 322 | 149 | 185 | 634 | c | 1,526 |
| Argyll & Bute | 7 | c | 29 | 7 | 33 | 42 | 912 | 5 | 89 | 793 | c | 1,980 |
| Clyde Valley | 62 | 7 | 52 | 11 | 49 | 117 | 986 | 119 | 327 | 1,342 | 141 | 3,213 |
| Ayrshire | 32 | 11 | 25 | 9 | 62 | 194 | 814 | 162 | 300 | 1,115 | 85 | 2,809 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 40 | c | 23 | 33 | 88 | 294 | 1,429 | 248 | 407 | 1,434 | c | 4,079 |
| LFA | 435 | 214 | 305 | 157 | 531 | 555 | 14,546 | 0 | 2,621 | 15,831 | 989 | 36,184 |
| Non-LFA | 2,142 | 682 | 316 | 128 | 364 | 231 | 0 | 2,447 | 2,701 | 6,475 | 633 | 16,119 |
| Scotland | 2,577 | 896 | 621 | 285 | 895 | 786 | 14,546 | 2,447 | 5,322 | 22,306 | 1,622 | 52,303 |
(1) Since the 2014 publication, ERSA has used a new farm typology. Comparisons with previous years should be made with caution. Further details are available at: www.gov.scot/Publications/2013/06/5219/12.
c data suppressed to prevent disclosure of individual holdings.
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