Results from the Scottish Agricultural Census: June 2025
Final results from the 2025 June Agricultural Census on land use, crop areas, livestock and the number of people working on agricultural holdings.
Module results on irrigation methods are also included within this publication.
First published: 30 October 2025.
Area for strawberries continues to decrease while blackcurrants increase
In 2025, the total soft fruit growing area was 1,900 hectares, a 6.7% decrease compared with the five-year average.
Strawberries remained the most widely grown fruit but the area has declined by 13% to 1,000 hectares when compared with the five-year average of 1,100 hectares, and has declined every year since 2020. The area used to grow raspberries and blueberries also fell by 13% and 10%, respectively.
The area used to grow blackcurrants increased by 13% to 400 hectares when compared with the five-year average.
In 2025, 69% of soft fruit was grown under cover in walk-in plastic structures called polytunnels, compared with 75% in 2020 and 68% in 2015. A further 4.9% was grown in glasshouses, compared with 1.7% in 2020 and 2.1% in 2015.
Figure 6: Area of strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants, and other fruit, 2015 to 2025. Note some data for 2022 were estimated based on administrative data and results in adjacent years.
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