§ Viscount WOLMERasked the Minister of Agriculture the object of the detailed agricultural survey now being carried on by the Ministry; the number of provinces or sections into which the country is divided for this purpose and their names; and the staff that is being employed for thus purpose?
§ Mr. N. BUXTONThe purpose of the proposed farm management survey is to obtain, primarily for the use of farmers themselves, information upon the factors in farm management which determine financial success or failure. The survey, which has not yet been started, will not be carried out by the Ministry but by the Universities and agricultural colleges, who will engage the necessary staff, the Ministry making a special grant to these bodies for this purpose. The provinces into which the country is at present divided for economic advisory work are 12 in number, a list of which I am forwarding to the hon. Member. It is probable that a similar division will be adopted for the purposes of the farm management survey.