HC Deb 10 July 1916 vol 84 cc6-7
5. Mr. PRINGLE

asked the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether he can state the average crop of potatoes in Belgium for the years 1911, 1912, and 1913, and the estimated crop of the year 1915?

Lord R. CECIL

The average potato crop of the whole of Belgium may be taken as a little over 3,000,000 tons. No accurate estimate of the crop of 1915 can be given, as a very large part of the crop is grown in the districts under military administration and in those still held by the Allied Armies. The 1915 crop in the so-called "zone of occupation" under German civil administration was probably slightly above normal.