Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 9 Jun 1960

Vol. 182 No. 7

Written Answers. - Distribution of Employment in Agriculture.

28.

Mr. Desmond

asked the Taoiseach if he will give particulars of the distribution of employment in agriculture as revealed in the National Farm Survey 1955-56 in the form of a reply of 12th May, 1960, giving separate figures for the south region.

The Taoiseach

The particulars of the average man-weeks per farm, derived from the records of all farms included in the 1955/56 National Farm Survey, are given, under the headings requested, in the following table:—

NATIONAL FARM SURVEY 1955-1956

Size Group	All Farms having only Family Labour Units	All Farms having Family and Hired Labour Units
South Region	All Regions Combined	South Region	All Regions Combined
	Number of farms	Family labour	Number of farms	Family labour	Number of farms	Family and hired labour	Number of farms	Family and hired labour
Family	Hired	Family	Hired
		man-weeks		man-weeks		man-weeks		man-weeks
5-15 acres	20	54	120	60	20	59	3	49	56	4
15-30 ,,	49	86	265	79	40	78	6	139	70	8
30-50 ,,	43	101	201	90	91	80	18	211	75	16
50-100 ,,	51	124	133	110	155	87	36	310	84	33
100-200 ,,	16	155	35	129	110	86	63	221	88	66
Over 200 ,,	3	—*	10	140	41	79	112	118	84	145

* Insufficient number of farms.

Following is the number of farms having hired labour only:—

Survey Year	Size Group	South Region	All Regions Combined
Number of Farms	Number of Farms
1955-1956	5-15Acres	1	2
	50-100,,	1	1
	Over 200,,	3	9