Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture, 2016

Presents an overall picture of Scottish agriculture using data from the various agricultural surveys that RESAS manage.


8.3 Output from farming

Chart 8.4 shows the comparative importance of each sector to a country's total output. While a large proportion of Scottish output came from livestock, Scotland also had significant cereal, horticulture and potato sectors. Crops played a more important part in England, while in both Wales and Northern Ireland there was a particularly high reliance on livestock and livestock products.

Chart 8.4: Comparison of relative importance of sector to total output, by country, 2015 [14]

Chart 8.4: Comparison of relative importance of sector to total output, by country, 2015

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