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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2. Geography and Structure

2.1 Geographical areas (Map 1)

Each agricultural holding is allocated to one of the 891 parishes in Scotland, ranging in area from about 60 hectares to 113,000 hectares. These parishes can then be aggregated up to the higher geographies like local authority ( LA), sub-region (groupings of LAs) and region. The table below shows which local authorities lie within each region and sub-region.

Most, though not all parishes lie wholly within a single LA area. Where a parish straddles LA boundaries, the whole parish is assigned to the LA in which the majority of the parish's area is located.

Regions, Sub-regions and Local Authority Areas
(Please note, these Regions are not the same as the EU's NUTS2 regions)

Region

Sub-regions

Local Authority

North West

Shetland

Shetland

Orkney

Orkney

Na h-Eileanan Siar

Na h-Eileanan Siar

Highland

Highland

North East

Grampian

Aberdeen City

Aberdeenshire

Moray

South East

Tayside

Angus

Dundee City

Perth & Kinross

Fife

Fife

Lothian

East Lothian

City of Edinburgh

Midlothian

West Lothian

Scottish Borders

Scottish Borders

South West

East Central

Clackmannan

Falkirk

Stirling

Argyll & Bute

Argyll & Bute

Clyde Valley

East Dunbartonshire

East Renfrewshire

City of Glasgow

Inverclyde

North Lanarkshire

Renfrewshire

South Lanarkshire

West Dunbartonshire

Ayrshire

East Ayrshire

North Ayrshire

South Ayrshire

Dumfries & Galloway

Dumfries & Galloway

Map 1: Regions and sub-regions

Map 1 Regions and sub-regions

Note: these Regions are not the same as the EU's NUTS2 regions

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