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Publication - Statistics

Results from the Scottish Agricultural Census: June 2024

Published
24 October 2024
From
Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands
Directorate
Environment and Forestry Directorate, +1 more … Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate
Topic
Farming and rural

Final results from the 2024 June Agricultural Census on land use, crop areas, livestock and the number of people working on agricultural holdings.

Module results on slurry storage and agricultural machinery are also included within this publication.

Supporting documents

Increase in planted potato area compared with five year average

The total area of planted potatoes was 29,100 hectares in 2024 an increase of 4.1% compared with the five year average (28,000 hectares). Both seed and ware potatoes increased (5.5% and 2.9% respectively). Seed potato area in 2024 was 12,800 hectares and ware potato area was 16,300 hectares.

Figure 4: Area of total, ware and seed potatoes, 2014 to 2024

Line chart of potato area between 2014 to 2024. Three lines show the trends over this time for total, ware and seed potatoes. All lines see a decrease in 2015 which then rises until 2017, drops the following year and decreases between 2021 and 2023. The lines in 2014 present total potatoes with 28,500 hectares, ware with 15,200 hectares and seed with 13,300 hectares. In 2024, total potatoes was 29,100 hectares, ware with 16,300 hectares and seed with 12,800 hectares.

Contact

Email:  agric.stats@gov.scot

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