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- Indicator 22
Sustainable consumption and production
Climate change
and energy
Natural resource protection and enhancing the environment
22. Agriculture sector
Fertiliser input, farmland bird population, ammonia and methane emissions and output, 1974 to 2007
| Fertiliser, NH3 since: | 1990 |
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2003 |
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| CH4 since: | 1990 |
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2003 |
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| Farmland birds since: | 1990 |
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2003 |
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- Between 1990 and 2007 output from UK agriculture changed little, but in 2007 it was 17 per cent higher than in the mid-1970s. By 1997 fertiliser use had risen by over half compared with the mid-1970s but thereafter was considerably reduced. Methane (CH4 ) and ammonia (NH3) emissions have fallen - by 15 and 22 per cent respectively since 1990.
- In 2007 farmland bird populations were 28 per cent lower than in 1990, and were 52 per cent lower than in 1974.
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Updated: 30 July 2009