HC Deb 27 February 1930 vol 235 cc2436-7W
Sir A. SINCLAIR

asked the Minister of Agriculture the amount of the sugar-beet production in England and Wales during each of the last seven years?

Mr. N. BUXTON

The following statement gives the tonnage of sugar beet delivered to the beet sugar factories in England and Wales in the last seven manufacturing campaigns:

Manufacturing Season. Tons (of washed and topped beet).
1923?24 102,090
1924?25 183,713
1925?26 428,213
1926?27 1,089,527
1927?28 1,441,520
1928?29 1,358,636
1929?30 1,998,000*
* Subject to slight adjustment when the final returns are received.

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