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Pesticide usage in Scotland: Grassland and Fodder Crops 2021

This publication presents information from a survey of pesticide use on grassland and fodder crops in Scotland during 2021.

Table 20: Sampled area of grassland - 2021

Area (ha) of grassland and rough grazing in the sample

	H&I⁽¹⁾	C&O⁽¹⁾	Moray Firth	Abdn⁽¹⁾	Angus	East Fife	Lothian	Central Low-lands	Tweed Valley	S. Uplands⁽¹⁾	Solway	Scotland
Grassland	9,647	7,128	3,490	6,538	1,993	1,118	1,893	12,676	8,126	11,081	10,431	74,119
Rough grazing	9,413	6,925	3,230	6,390	1,931	1,024	1,850	12,413	7,887	10,886	10,057	72,005

(1) H&I = Highlands & Islands, C&O = Caithness & Orkney, Abdn = Aberdeen, S. Uplands = Southern Uplands.

(2) These areas do not include the estimated 7,563 hectares of undersown grass as this is not recorded on the census (refer to Appendix 3).

Note: data taken from the 2021 June Agricultural Census⁽¹³⁾.

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