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Sir R. Glyn
asked the Minister of Agriculture what was the total acreage under sugar-beet planted for the 1939–40 harvest, and what acreage was harvested?
Sir R. Dorman-Smith
The agricultural returns for June, 1939, showed a total of 342,751 acres as having been planted to sugar-beet. I am informed that the British Sugar Corporation estimate that the area of land which produced the 1939–40sugar-beet harvest was approximately 340,000 acres.