The following table shows agricultural land use in South West England in the last five years.
Arable Other arable Set aside Grass Woodland Horticulture Rough grazing 2006 29,3987 9,354 57,764 1,148,977 69,882 11,809 90,826 2005 29,7628 7,234 62,324 1,104,922 66,965 12,549 90,117 2004 32,0963 5,084 65,110 1,077,265 62,684 11,781 94,706 2003 31,2656 4,168 75,537 1,072,491 59,886 12,907 91,538 2002 33,6270 3,343 66,997 1,027,766 59,922 12,669 98,505
The next table shows the amount of land used to produce bio-energy crops in the South West of England in the last five years. The land represented in this table has been used to grow short rotation coppice and miscanthus under the energy crops scheme and oil seed rape under the EU energy aid payment scheme.
Land (hectares) 2006 2,396.82 2005 1,631.44 2004 84.41 2003 0 2002 0
In addition to these figures there has been 158 hectares of miscanthus planted in the region under the European Objective One programme which ran from 2000 to 2006. Unfortunately a yearly breakdown of this figure is not available.