HC Deb 08 May 1975 vol 891 cc482-3W
Mr. Kimball

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he is yet in a position to say whether or not the expected acreage of sugar beet will be sown this spring.

Mr. Strang

I understand from the British Sugar Corporation that nearly 90 per cent. of the contracted 490,000 acres has now been sown and that it does not expect the shortfall of planted acreage due to bad weather to exceed about 10,000 acres.