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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 21: Census area of grassland - 2021

Area (ha) of grassland and rough grazing in Scotland

	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⁽²⁾	227,735	86,160	74,329	133,272	49,427	25,259	29,391	267,976	78,681	138,728	185,942	1,296,900
Rough grazing	2,230,277	83,300	150,466	41,681	40,745	2,582	16,990	129,744	30,855	289,440	56,455	3,072,535

(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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