§ Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and
Crop Year Acreage Average Yield Sugar-in-Beet per Crop Acre Sugar Production from Home Grown Beet (WSE) Annual Output of Beet Sugar (WSE) as a percentage of 10 year average 1965–66 to 1974–75 '000 acres Tons/acre '000 tons Per cent. 1965–66 … 455 2.3 846 98 1966–67 … 446 2.3 848 98 1967–68 … 457 2.4 873 101 1968–69 … 465 2.3 883 102 1969–70 … 457 2.2 847 98 1970–71 … 463 2.3 892 103 1971–72 … 471 2.7 1,069 124 1972–73 … 468 2.2 872 101 1973–74 … 480 2.4 948 110 1974–75 … 482 1.5 559 65 WSE = White Sugar Equivalent.