§ Mr. Malcolm MacPhersonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps are proposed in order to increase the tillage area.
Mr. McNeilThe agricultural executive committees have assessed for their own areas the acreages of the various crops they consider can be attained, and they are pressing farmers, with fair success, to grow these acreages. In order to protect the acreage under crops, however, the agricultural executive committees have been empowered to take compulsory action to reduce the area under pasture on any farm where it appears to them that too much land is being devoted to grass.