§ 56. Mr. Liddallasked the Minister of Agriculture whether he has planned, in advance, for a large increase in homegrown sugar-beet production; and whether he has devised any schemes for developing unsuitable rural into suitable areas by clearing, by cultivation and by fertilisation for sugar-beet and, at the same time, using some of such areas and idle grass and residential lands in the southern counties for large-scale poultry rearing under the supervision of agricultural war committees?
Mr. HudsonI do not think that any difficulty is likely to arise in securing the acreage required for next year's programme. The suggestion in the last part of the Question is not practicable having regard to the feeding-stuffs position.