§ Mr. Pardoeasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1) if he will estimate how many individual farms were in operation in Cornwall in December, 1964, and December, 1968;
(2) if he will estimate how many farm workers were employed in Cornwall in December, 1964, and December, 1968.
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§ Mr. HoyFigures from the December agricultural census are subject to considerable sampling errors at county level, since the census includes only one-third of the parishes in each county. The following figures are therefore taken from the complete census held in June:
Number of farm workers (including family workers) Number of holdings* Regular Whole-time Regular Part-time Seasonal and Casual Total 1964 … 12,361 6,907 1,600 1,973 10,480 1968 … 10,013† 5,446 1,064 1,540 8,050 * For census purposes, a holding consists of land of more than one acre used for agriculture for which a separate census return is made. It does not necessarily correspond to an "individual farm" because some holdings which are farmed with other holdings as part of a larger single unit are returned separately in the census, while others are returned as part of the larger unit. † In June, 1968, some 47,000 holdings in England and Wales were excluded from the census on the ground that their contribution to agricultural output was negligible. About 1,690 of these were in Cornwall; they accounted for 21 regular part-time workers and 14 seasonal and casual workers.