Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024

Farming etc.

2 (1) Assisting persons to carry out agricultural activities.

(2) For the purposes of this schedule, references to agriculture include—

(a) horticulture,

(b) growing crops, including fruit, seeds and plants grown for the production of energy or other non-food purposes,

(c) dairy farming,

(d) livestock breeding and keeping (including apiculture),

(e) deer and game farming,

(f) the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, osier land,

(g) market gardens and nursery grounds, and

(h) the use of land for woodlands where that use is ancillary to the farming of the land for other agricultural purposes, including—

(i) providing shelter to livestock,

(ii) reducing flood risk,

(iii) reducing soil loss,

(iv) reducing risks to wader birds, including curlew.

(3) In this paragraph, “horticulture” means the growing and harvesting of horticultural crops, including fruit, vegetables, tubers, mushrooms, herbs, bush and tree nuts and seeds.