§ Mr. MacGregorasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will list the number of bankruptcies in farming in the last 10 years to the end of 1974.
§ Mr. BishopThe number of bankruptcies—receiving orders administered—in agriculture in England and Wales during the last 10 years was:
1965 … … … … 204 1966 … … … … 234 1967 … … … … 232 1968 … … … … 174 1969 … … … … 225 1970 … … … … 214 1971 … … … … 193 1972 … … … … 108 1973 … … … … 71 1974 … … … … 93 Company liquidations are not included.
I regret that similar figures are not available for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
38Wproduction under protection to establish the correct cultural conditions for the main range of protected crops, particularly tomato. The system is also being used to investigate the interaction between the aerial and root environment and in particular those between air temperature, root temperature and nutrition. The technique is being further developed and evaluated by ADAS on a wider range of protected crops.