The publication "Agriculture In The United Kingdom: 1991" gives details of expenditure on agriculture support—;table 9.1—;and the number of farm holdings—;table 2.3.
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1987–88 |
1988–89 |
1989–90 |
1990–91 |
1991–92 (forecast) |
| II Price guarantees |
|
|
|
|
|
| Potatoes4 |
—; |
—; |
—; |
—; |
—; |
| Wool4 |
0.7 |
0.1 |
2.9 |
18.2 |
38.0 |
| Assistance to the Egg Industry |
—; |
2.9 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
—; |
| Total |
0.7 |
3.0 |
3.0 |
18.3 |
38.0 |
| III Support for capital and other improvements |
|
|
|
|
|
| Farm and Conservation Grant Scheme (EC)5 |
—; |
—; |
0.4 |
3.2 |
6.3 |
| Agriculture Improvement Scheme (EC)5 |
18.9 |
25.9 |
24.0 |
13.3 |
10.2 |
| Agriculture and Horticulture Development Scheme56 |
32.3 |
21.6 |
15.1 |
12.2 |
7.7 |
| Farm structures |
0.4 |
0.4 |
0.3 |
0.3 |
0.3 |
| Agriculture and Horticulture Grant Scheme 57 |
3.6 |
1.0 |
0.1 |
—; |
—; |
| Agriculture Improvement Scheme (National) 5 |
9.0 |
7.1 |
7.2 |
0.9 |
0.3 |
| Northern Ireland Agricultural Development Programme 58 |
2.0 |
1.1 |
2.6 |
7.0 |
8.3 |
| Farm Woodlands |
—; |
—; |
0.3 |
1.0 |
2.1 |
| Farm and Conservation Grant Scheme (National) 5 |
—; |
—; |
11.5 |
32.1 |
33.8 |
| Guidance Premiums |
2.3 |
1.0 |
0.3 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
| Farm accounts |
0.7 |
0.4 |
0.2 |
0.2 |
0.3 |
| Others9 |
0.3 |
0.2 |
—; |
0.2 |
0.4 |
| Total |
69.5 |
58.7 |
62.0 |
70.5 |
69.8 |
| IV Support for agriculture in special areas |
|
|
|
|
|
| Hill Livestock compensatory allowances: |
|
|
|
|
|
| cattle |
52.0 |
50.6 |
52.9 |
57.4 |
69.7 |
| sheep |
69.0 |
62.6 |
69.5 |
73.0 |
89.6 |
| Additional benefit under AHDs, NIADP, AHGS, AIS (EC), AIS (Nat) FCGS (EC), FCGS (Nat) |
20.9 |
19.6 |
20.1 |
18.6 |
19.8 |
| Others10 |
4.1 |
4.9 |
8.1 |
10.1 |
11.3 |
| Total |
145.9 |
137.1 |
150.6 |
159.1 |
190.4 |
| V Other payments |
|
|
|
|
|
| Set-Aside |
—; |
—; |
9.8 |
19.1 |
27.4 |
| Milk outgoers scheme8 |
11.1 |
11.4 |
4.7 |
0.8 |
0.7 |
| Weather aid 1985 |
—; |
—; |
—; |
—; |
—; |
| Storm damage 1987 |
—; |
0.2 |
0.1 |
0.4 |
—; |
| Sheep compensation scheme 1986 |
1.0 |
0.9 |
0.4 |
0.9 |
1.0 |
| Co-operation grants |
1.7 |
1.2 |
1.2 |
0.9 |
1.2 |
| Crofting building grants and loans (net) |
3.3 |
3.1 |
2.7 |
3.3 |
4.2 |
| Farm diversification: |
|
|
|
|
|
| Capital grants |
—; |
0.5 |
2.3 |
2.8 |
3.0 |
| Marketing and feasibility grants |
—; |
—; |
—; |
0.1 |
0.4 |
| Nitrate sensitive areas |
—; |
—; |
—; |
0.3 |
0.9 |
| Environmentally sensitive areas |
2.9 |
6.8 |
8.6 |
9.4 |
11.6 |
| Extensification |
— |
— |
— |
— |
0.4 |
| Others11 |
1.0 |
0.8 |
0.2 |
1.0 |
1.2 |
| Total |
21.0 |
24.9 |
30.0 |
39.0 |
52.0 |
| Total I to V12 |
1.630.0 |
1.379.7 |
1,.258.0 |
1.909.7 |
2.086.0 |
| 1 The figures are net of receipts treated as negative expenditure. Receipts from levies on and on third country exports, which are regarded as community own resources, are excluded |
| 2 Includes eggs, poultrymeat. fruit and vegetables, hops, herbage seeds, dried fodder, expenditure on products covered by the CAP but not produced to any significant exten must and hemp). |
| 3 Payments in Great Britain are made by the Intervention Board and included in beef and veal expenditure in section (i). |
| 4 Payments in respect of potatoes and wool relate partly to the crop or clip of the year indicated and partly to the crop or clip in the preceding year or years. |
| 5 Farmers in special areas are also eligible for additional assistance. The estimated benefit is shown separately in section IV of the table. |
| 6 Includes the farm and horticulture development scheme. |
| 7 Includes the farm and horticulture capital grant schemes. |
| 8 Except for the Northern Ireland Agricultural Development Programme (NIADP) and the milk outgoers scheme expenditure from the Northern Ireland block is excluded. |
| 9 Includes loan guarantees, grants for agricultural drainage in Scotland and farm structure loans. |
| 10 Includes the integrated development programme for the Western Isles. grants for crofting improvements. |
| 11 Includes producer organisations and forage groups and Shetland wool producers. |
| 12 Receipts from the European Community (to which the United Kingdom contributes) are set out below (£ million). Receipts do not always relate to expenditure in the year in which they are received. Reimbursement of spending on structural measures (Section III) is normally a year in arrears. Receipts for 1988–89 and subsequent years reflect the arrangements for depreciation Council in February 1988. |
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|
Number of holdings ('000) |
Hectares ('000) |
Number of holdings('000) |
Hectares ('000) |
| Crops and grass area23 |
0.1 to under 20 hectares |
102.0 |
827 |
96.2 |
803 |
|
20.0 to undr 50 hectares |
63.0 |
2,079 |
60.3 |
1,991 |
|
50.0 to under 100 hectares |
41.2 |
2,904 |
40.9 |
2,877 |
|
100.0 hectares and over |
31.2 |
6,168 |
31.2 |
6,109 |
|
Total |
237.4 |
11,978 |
228.6 |
11,780 |
|
Average crops and grass area per holding (hectares) |
—; |
50.5 |
—; |
51.5 |
|
% of total crops and grass area on holdings with 100 hectares and over |
— |
51.5 |
— |
51.9 |
| 1 The provisional 1991 figures include returns on about 3,500 holdings (net) in Scotland which have been reclassified as main holdings. |
| 2 Land in Great Britain let out under short term lets is attributed to the lessor, but land so let out in Northern Ireland (under the conacre system) is now attributed to the lessee. This difference, which applies to both the 1986 and 1991 figures in the table, affects both the number of holdings and their average size. |
| 3 The numbers of holdings shown in this part of the table are lower than those presented in the "total a without crops and grass are excluded. |