Summary
AGRICULTURE is vital to the Scottish economy: it is widely recognised as being worth as much as 10 per cent of gross national product when downstream activities are considered.
However, there have been real problems, especially in the hills and uplands, in recent years where profitability has been virtually negligible. This has resulted in the numbers of productive herds and flocks of cattle and sheep falling sharply. Around one million ewes have disappeared.See the full content of this document
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Lochhead Shifts Emphasis to Producers Feeling the Pinch
However, crofters and the so-called "slipper farmers" remained more than happy to accept all the various cheques that came their way through the machinat...
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