asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he will state (a) the number of separate areas from which returns in respect of agricultural production have been sought this year; and (b) the average number of individual returns sought in each such separate area.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Agricultural Production.
I assume the Deputy is referring to the collection of the agricultural statistics, acreage under crops and numbers of live stock, which is at the moment being made by the Garda enumerators. The unit area of enumeration is the district electoral division of which there are 2,989, and the number of individual returns corresponds to the number of agricultural holdings which is approximately 383,000.