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Pesticide usage in Scotland: arable crops and potato stores 2016
This publication presents information from a survey of pesticide use on arable crops and potato stores in Scotland during 2016.
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Table 4 Potato cultivation and storage, comparison with previous surveys - 2016
| 2012 |
2014 |
2016 |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Area grown (ha) (1) |
Seed |
13,002 |
13,300 |
12,760 |
| Ware |
16,534 |
15,211 |
14,766 |
|
| Tonnes stored |
Seed |
329,427 |
398,780 |
415,023 |
| Ware |
630,637 |
747,902 |
725,263 |
|
(1) This is the census area of the crops intended to be grown for seed and ware production. Some of the seed crop was reclassified as ware post-harvest