HC Deb 23 June 1975 vol 894 cc37-8W
Mr. MacGregor

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will list the number of bankruptcies in farming in the last 10 years to the end of 1974.

Mr. Bishop

The number of bankruptcies—receiving orders administered—in agriculture in England and Wales during the last 10 years was:

1965 204
1966 234
1967 232
1968 174
1969 225
1970 214
1971 193
1972 108
1973 71
1974 93

Company liquidations are not included.

I regret that similar figures are not available for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

production under protection to establish the correct cultural conditions for the main range of protected crops, particularly tomato. The system is also being used to investigate the interaction between the aerial and root environment and in particular those between air temperature, root temperature and nutrition. The technique is being further developed and evaluated by ADAS on a wider range of protected crops.

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