Pesticide usage in Scotland: Grassland and Fodder Crops 2021

This publication presents information from a survey of pesticide use on grassland and fodder crops in Scotland during 2021.


Table 21: Census area of grassland - 2021

Area (ha) of grassland and rough grazing in Scotland

  H&I(1) C&O(1) Moray Firth Abdn(1) Angus East Fife Lothian Central Low-lands Tweed Valley S. Uplands(1) Solway Scotland
Grassland(2) 227,735 86,160 74,329 133,272 49,427 25,259 29,391 267,976 78,681 138,728 185,942 1,296,900
Rough grazing 2,230,277 83,300 150,466 41,681 40,745 2,582 16,990 129,744 30,855 289,440 56,455 3,072,535

(1) H&I = Highlands & Islands, C&O = Caithness & Orkney, Abdn = Aberdeen, S. Uplands = Southern Uplands.

(2) These areas do not include the estimated 7,563 hectares of undersown grass as this is not recorded on the census (refer to Appendix 3).

Note: data taken from the 2021 June Agricultural Census(13).

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