§ Lord Mountevansasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they have determined the market support prices for potatoes to apply in Great Britain for the 1991–92 crop year beginning 1st July 1991.
§ Baroness TrumpingtonAgriculture Ministers have consulted the farmers' unions about the market support arrangements to apply for the 1991–92 crop year. Ministers have decided that the guaranteed price should remain £53 per tonne. They have, as in 1990–91, authorised the board to decide whether it wishes to support the market by entering into pre-season contracts with producers or by intervening directly. provided that total purchases do not exceed 500,000 tonnes. The target area for potato plantings by registered producers in Great Britain was fixed last August at 154,000 hectares.