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Statistical report on Northern Ireland agriculture

Thursday, 26 March 2009

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) released the ‘Statistical Review of Northern Ireland Agriculture 2008’ today.

The Statistical Review is the primary reference document for those involved in the agri-food sector. It contains a wide range of economic and physical data, which presents a comprehensive picture of 2008, and enables comparisons to be made with earlier years. Details of the components of the 2008 aggregate agricultural income figures, released in summary form on 29 January 2009, are included.

Copies of this report are available free of charge to download from the Departments web-site at the following link (http://www.dardni.gov.uk/index/dard-statistics/statistical-reports.htm).

Notes to Editors:

  1. The ‘Statistical Review’ contains statistics on the quantities and values of outputs and inputs, on aggregate gross margins, receipts from subsidies, expenditure on capital investment, sizes of quotas and other subsidy ceilings and average incomes at farm level. Other tables give information on land use, crop areas, livestock numbers, the size and type of farms, and employment on-farm and in the food processing sector.
  2. The ‘Statistical Review of Northern Ireland Agriculture, 2008’ is available, free of charge, on the DARD website (http://www.dardni.gov.uk/index/dard-statistics/statistical-reports/the-statistical-reveiw-of-northern-ireland-agriculture.htm). Alternatively, hardcopies may be obtained, price £17.00, from Policy and Economics Division, Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Room 656, Dundonald House, Belfast, BT4 3SB.
  3. The ‘Statistical Review’ is the Northern Ireland equivalent of 'Agriculture in the United Kingdom 2008', which will be published on 26 March 2009 and will be available, free of charge, on the DEFRA website (www.defra.gov.uk) or, alternatively, can be obtained from HMSO.
  4. The 2008 Aggregate Income for Northern Ireland Agriculture was published in a statistical press release on the DARD website on the 29 January, 2009 (http://www.dardni.gov.uk/index/publications/pubs-dard-statistics/incomes-08.htm).
  5. These statistics are part of a National Statistics publication.
  6. All media enquiries to DARD Press Office, telephone 028 9052 4619. Out of office hours, contact the Duty Press Officer via pager number 076 9971 5440, and your call will be returned.