Pesticide usage in Scotland: soft fruit 2020

Appendix 2 – Survey statistics Census and sample information

Table 24 Census crop areas 2020, Census area (ha) of soft fruit crops grown in Scotland

Crop	Scotland 2020	Scotland 2018	% change
Strawberry	1,194	1,133	5
Raspberry	241	271	-11
Blackcurrant	297	279	6
Blueberry	265	219	21
Mixed and other soft fruits	172	147	17
All soft fruit	2,168	2,050	6

Note: Data taken from the 2020 and 2018 June Agricultural Census.

All areas exclude multicropping

It was estimated from the crops encountered in the 2020 sample, that 32 ha of the mixed and other soft fruit categories in the census were raspberry, strawberry, blueberry or blackcurrant

Table 25 Distribution of soft fruit sample - 2020, Number of holdings surveyed in each region and size group

Size(1) (ha)	North	Angus	South	Scotland
0.01 - 4.99	19	4	10	33
5.00 - 9.99	0	4	3	7
10.00 - 19.99	1	5	1	7
20 +	0	12	5	17
All sizes	20	25	19	64

(1) Refers to the total area of soft fruit crops grown on the holding, including those grown

in the open and those grown under glasshouse or walk-in plastic structures

Table 26 Non-protected soft fruit sample areas - 2020, Area (ha) of non-protected soft fruit crops in sample

Size(1) (ha)	Scotland(2)
0.01 - 4.99	5.32
5.00 - 9.99	9.49
10.00 - 19.99	0.00
20 +	118.77
All sizes	133.58

Table 27 Non-protected soft fruit census areas - 2020, Area (ha) of soft fruit grown in the open in Scotland

Size(1) (ha)	Scotland(2)
0.01 - 4.99	101.79
5.00 - 9.99	68.51
10.00 - 19.99	78.21
20 +	312.06
All sizes	560.57

(1) Refers to the total area of soft fruit crops grown on the holding, including those grown in the open and those grown under glasshouse or walk-in plastic structures

(2) Regional data have not been provided in order to prevent disclosure of information relating to fewer than five holdings

Table 28 Protected soft fruit sample areas - 2020, Area (ha) of protected soft fruit crops in sample

Size(1) (ha)	Scotland(2)
0.01 - 4.99	24.00
5.00 - 9.99	28.70
10.00 - 19.99	76.22
20 +	512.71
All sizes	641.64

Table 29 Protected soft fruit census areas - 2020, Area (ha) of soft fruit grown under protection in Scotland

Size(1) (ha)	Scotland(2)
0.01 - 4.99	46.51
5.00 - 9.99	98.80
10.00 - 19.99	200.68
20 +	1,261.83
All sizes	1,607.81

(1) Refers to the total area of soft fruit crops grown on the holding, including those grown in the open and those grown under glasshouse or walk-in plastic structures

(2) Regional data have not been provided in order to prevent disclosure of information relating to fewer than five holdings

Table 30 Non-protected soft fruit raising factors - 2020

Size(1) (ha)	North	Angus	South
0.01 - 4.99	12.1967	76.2453	13.7613
5.00 - 9.99		20.8264	3.5906
10.00 - 19.99
20 +		2.5261

Table 31 Protected soft fruit raising factors - 2020

Size(1) (ha)	North	Angus	South
0.01 - 4.99	1.0491	3.0280	1.7975
5.00 - 9.99		3.0489	4.3067
10.00 - 19.99	1.1742	2.7201	3.3860
20 +		2.5808	2.1415

(1) Refers to the total area of soft fruit crops grown on the holding, including those grown in the open and those grown under glasshouse or walk-in plastic structures.

Note: Raising factors are calculated by comparing the sampled crop area to the census crop area

Table 32 Non-protected soft fruit first and second adjustment factors - 2020

Crop	North Adj. 1	Angus Adj. 1	South Adj. 1	Adj 2
Strawberry	5.2227	8.1317	0.9406	1.0000
Raspberry	10.1239	1.8207	1.1315	1.0000
Blackcurrant	0.7916	0.9668	0.2471	1.0000
Other soft fruit	1.4996	2.0216	2.1513	1.0000

Table 33 Protected soft fruit first and second adjustment factors - 2020

Crop	North Adj. 1	Angus Adj. 1	South Adj. 1	Adj 2
Strawberry	1.0683	1.1479	0.9520	1.0000
Raspberry	0.7389	0.6597	0.8143	1.0000
Other soft fruit	46.1965	0.8768	2.4173	1.0000

Response rates

The table below summarises the number of holdings contacted during the survey.

Table 34 Response rate

	2020	% total
Target sample	82	100
Total achieved	64	78
Total number of refusals/non-contact	20
Total number of farms approached	84

Financial burden to farmers

To minimise the burden on farmers and to comply with COVID-19 restrictions, the survey team used non-visit methods of collection such as email, post or telephone call.

To determine the total burden that the 2020 Soft Fruit Crop Survey placed on those providing the information, the surveyors recorded the time that 56 respondents spent providing the data during the surveys. This sample represents 88 per cent of growers surveyed. The median time taken to provide the information was 10 minutes.

The following formula was used to estimate the total cost of participating:

Burden (£) = No. surveyed x median time taken (hours) x typical hourly rate*

(* using median “Full Time Gross” hourly pay for Scotland of £15.62)⁽⁹⁾

The total financial burden to all growers resulting from participation in the 2020 Soft Fruit Crop survey was calculated to be £167.