Staple Foods (Hansard, 11 February 1954)

§ Mr. Peter Freeman

asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will issue a list of all staple foods showing the average

UNITED KINGDOM, 1953 –54
—	Yield per acre	Value per acre	Aggregate gross value	Subsidy (Aggregate)
				£	£ million	£ million
Wheat	…	…	24.0 cwt.	33.5	74.3	20.8
Barley	…	22.7 cwt	31.2	69.5
Oats	…	…	19.8 cwt	22.1	62.7
Other corn	…	20.9 cwt	25.3	22.1
Potatoes	…	8.4 tons	101.3	99.8	7.8
Sugar-beet	…	13.0 tons	72.8	30.2	—
Milk	…	…	—	—	340.2	43.5 Ordinary Milk
39.5 Welfare Milk Schemes
Eggs	…	…	—	—	119.0	21.1
Fat Cattle	…	…	—	—	135.6	10.1
Fat Sheep	…	—	—	56.7	11.1
Pork Pigs	…	—	—	74.1	48.6
Bacon Pigs	…	—	—	99.4
Wool	…	…	—	—	15.5	—
NOTES—
(i) It is not practicable to calculate yields or values per acre for livestock products.
(ii) In so far as corn or other crops are used for animal feed their aggregate value is included again in the aggregate value of the livestock products.
(iii) The subsidy figures exclude production grants.
(iv) Subsidy figures are based on M.O.F. Supplementary Estimates for 1953–54.
(v) The figures relate only to 1953–54, in which year the yields of crops, including cereals, were particularly high and well above the average for the last five years.

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