asked the Minister for Agriculture the total cost of imported farm machinery, farm tractors excluded, which were grant-aided under the farm modernisation scheme and the group fodder schemes, in Counties Cavan and Monaghan, for the year ending 31 December 1977.
Written Answers . - Imported Farm Machinery .
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: Following are particulars of machinery grants, excluding those on tractors, paid to farmers in Cavan and Monaghan in 1977 under the farm modernisation scheme.
Cavan |
Monaghan |
|
Under group fodder scheme |
£58,848 |
£24,938 |
Mobile equipment purchases by development farmers |
£913 |
£3,211 |
Certain items of machinery are also grant-aided under the category of fixed assets but no precise breakdown of the machinery element in this category is available.
Information on the import content of the machinery aided is not compiled.