Defra issues Revised Organic Statistics
22nd September 20092008 statistics on the UK Organic food industry were published last month, but have been revised and reissued due to an error in calculations of in-conversion land.
This Report refers to organic production in the year 2008 and shows the total organic area in Scotland is 231,341ha, 4.1% of the total agricultural area.
There are 889 organically certified businesses in Scotland which includes producers and processors. This is an increase of 3.4% from 2007.
In the UK there are nearly 320,000 head of cattle (up 27.6%), 1.2 million sheep (up 36.5%), and just over 71,000 pigs (up 41%). Numbers have declined in organic poultry: down 1.8% to 4.4 million and goats are also down 24% to 409.
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