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Statistical report on Northern Ireland agriculture

Thursday, 25 March 2010

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) released today the ‘Statistical Review of Northern Ireland Agriculture 2009’.

The Statistical Review is the main reference document for stakeholders in the agri-food sector. It contains a wide range of economic and physical data, which presents a comprehensive picture of 2009, and enables comparisons to be made with earlier years. Full details of the components of the 2009 aggregate agricultural income figures and farm level income figures, released in summary form on 28 January 2009, are included.

Copies of this report are available free of charge to download from the Department’s web-site.

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, 2009’ is available, free of charge, on the DARD website 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 2009', which will be published on 25 March 2010 and will be available, free of charge, on the DEFRA website or, alternatively, can be purchased from HMSO.
  4. Aggregate Income figures for Northern Ireland Agriculture were published in a statistical press release on the DARD website on the 28 January, 2010 .
  5. These statistics are part of a National Statistics publication.
  6. Media enquiries to the DARD Press Office on 028 9052 4619 or out of hours contact the Duty Press Officer via pager number 07699 715 440 and your call will be returned.