OTHER CROPS/VEGETABLES

Other crops/vegetables: mainly potatoes, leaf brassicas, legumes, root crops and soft fruit.

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Other crops/vegetables: distribution in Northern Ireland.
Other crops/vegetables cover 0.7% of NI (9,441 ha), (Table below). It is a mainly lowland habitat (1.0%) compared with the uplands (0.1%). This habitat occurs mainly in the Mourne AONB (1.6%) and the Wider Countryside (0.9%).
Other crops/vegetables: predicted distribution map (1998).
Other crops/vegetables: net change 1991 - 1998.
The area of Other crops/vegetables decreased by 29% (-3,887 ha), mainly in the Wider Countryside (-33%, -3,765 ha).
Other crops/vegetables: summary of losses and gains 1991 - 1998.

Other crops/vegetables: main losses and gains 1991 - 1998.
Loss of Other crops/vegetables was mainly by land use change to Perennial ryegrass. Habitats in the losses and gains table below are linked to their descriptors and NI data. Full details of all losses and gains are given in the technical report.
 
Losses
(1991 - 98)		 Habitats Gains
(1991 - 98)
ha  % ha  %
28 <1       Tall herb/ruderal 2 <1  
2921 22 *     Cereals 2035 4 *
448 3       Italian/perennial ryegrass 354 1  
807 6 *     Ploughed land 0    
6985 52 *     Perennial ryegrass 3013 <1 *
194 1       Mixed species grassland 106 <1  
214 2       Other agricultural grassland 2085 <1  
0         Orchard 89 5  
Note : % = percentage of 1991 habitat area.
           * = indicates significant transition (p = 0.05).
          nc = not calculated.
 
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