Publication - Statistics

Pesticide usage - arable crops and potato stores 2018: survey results

Published: 13 November 2019
Directorate: Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate
Topic: Farming and rural
ISBN: 9781839603099

Information from a survey of pesticide use on arable crops and potato stores in Scotland during 2018.

Table 4: Potato cultivation and storage, comparison with previous surveys – 2018

	Crop	2014	2016	2018
Area grown (ha)⁽¹⁾	Seed	13,300	12,760	12,092
	Ware	15,211	14,766	15,268
Tonnes stored	Seed	398,780	415,023	408,870
	Ware	747,902	725,263	697,021

(1) This is the census area of the crops intended to be grown for seed and ware production. Some of the seed crop was reclassified as ware post-harvest

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