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Publication - Consultation paper

Marketing of Organic Heterogeneous Material (OHM): consultation results

Published
20 June 2024
Directorate
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate
Topic
Environment and climate change, Farming and rural
ISBN
9781836014119

Consultation results on the proposed legislative options and scope of marketing organic heterogenous material (OHM) in Scotland.

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Respondent trends

Figure 4: Legislative option results by respondent type
This is contains 2 paired horizontal bar charts showing the breakdown of legislative option results by respondent type; Organisation, broken down by Implementing permanent change (83%), Maintaining the status quo (11%) and Implementing a temporary experiment (6%). Individual, broken down by Maintaining the status quo (67%), Implementing a temporary experiment (25%) and Implementing a temporary experiment (8%).

There is majority support amongst both organisations (83%) and individuals (67%) to implement permanent legislative change.

There is a stronger sentiment to maintain the status quo amongst individuals (25%) by comparison to organisations (11%).

There is little support for implementing a temporary experiment amongst both organisiations (6%) and individuals (8%).

Figure 5: Legislative option results by industry sector
This is contains 5 vertical bar charts showing the breakdown of legislative option results by industry sector; Horticulture / crofting, broken down by Implementing permanent change (80%), Maintaining the status quo (10%) and Implementing a temporary experiment (10%) Commercial farming, broken down by Implementing permanent change (75%), Maintaining the status quo (0%) and Implementing a temporary experiment (25%). Seed production, broken down by Implementing permanent change (50%), Maintaining the status quo (50%) and Implementing a temporary experiment (0%). Research, broken down by Implementing permanent change (100%), Maintaining the status quo (0%) and Implementing a temporary experiment (0%). Other, broken down by Implementing permanent change (86%), Maintaining the status quo (14%) and Implementing a temporary experiment (0%).

There is majority support across most sectors of industry for implement permanent legislative change, including horticulture / crofting (80%), commercial farming (75%), research (100%) and other (86%). The only industry sector without majority support for implementing permanent legislative change is seed production (50%).

There is sentiment to maintain the status quo within the seed production industry (50%). To a lesser extent this is followed by other (14%) and horticulture / crofting (10%).

There was only support for implementing a temporary experiment amongst horticulture / crofting (10%) and commercial farming (25%).

Contact

Email: sam.filippi@gov.scot

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