asked the Taoiseach if he will furnish details of agricultural income and expenses for the latest year for which figures are available and the number of males engaged in farm work in the form of a reply of 8th February, 1967.
Written Answers. - Agricultural Statistics.
88.
The details requested by the Deputy are shown in the following tables for 1975 along with revised data for 1974.
A Net Output and Expenses of Agriculture, 1974 and 1975
|
Item |
1974 |
1975 |
|
£ million |
||
|
Net Output of Agriculture (including value of changes in livestock numbers) |
463.1 |
659 |
|
Expenses of agriculture: |
||
|
Land Annuities |
2.2 |
2 |
|
Rates |
16.3 |
16 |
|
Wages and Salaries |
33.2 |
38 |
|
Repairs to machinery, spare parts, etc. |
10.4 |
|
|
Petrol, fuel, oil, etc. |
18.6 |
|
|
Depreciation of machinery and implements |
38.9 |
135* |
|
Transport and marketing |
10.3 |
|
|
Other |
29.3 |
|
|
less Total expenses |
159.2 |
191 |
|
plus Subsidies not related to sales (beef incentive subsidy, mountain sheep subsidies, etc.) |
17.9 |
15 |
|
Income from self-employment and other trading income |
321.8 |
483 |
*Separate details not yet available for 1975.
B Males engaged in Farmwork in June, 1974 and 1975
|
Item |
1974* |
1975* |
|
Number of male family workers on farms |
210,900 |
209,300 |
|
Number of male employees on farms |
33,900 |
33,500 |
|
Total number of males at work on farms |
244,800 |
242,800 |
*Preliminary figures.
89.
asked the Taoiseach if he will furnish particulars of farm employment, full-time employees, part-time employees and farm tractors in each county on 1st June, 1975.
The latest information available at county level relates to June, 1973, and was given in reply to Question No. 118 of 19th February, 1975—Official Report, Volume 278, No. 5, columns 868-870. The corresponding information in respect of June, 1975, will be available in early 1977.