asked the Minister for Agriculture the number of ACOT advisers giving specialist advice in each county and the average number of farmers for each adviser in (i) dairy farming; (ii) pig farming; (iii) cereal growing; and (iv) horticultural production.
Written Answers. - ACOT Advisers.
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ACOT are at present in the course of restructuring the agricultural advisery service on a unified national basis with the district as the basic advisery/administrative unit within counties. At this stage of the reorganisation ACOT are not in a position to provide information, in the format requested, regarding deployment of staff between the different farm enterprises.