asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the latest acreage of United Kingdom sugar beet production; and how this compares with predictions from "Food From Our Own Resources".
The provisional results of the 1977 June census show 202,000 hectares of sugar beet. "Food From Our Own Resources" did not predict acreages but gave a possible level of production of sugar beet in 1980 of 9,450,000 tons (9,600,000 tonnes).
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will set out in the Official Report a table showing the quotas allocated to each of the States associated with the Lomé sugar protocol for each of the years of the agreement, the surplus or shortfall for each year, and quotas and estimates for the current year.
This information is set out below for member States of the Lomé Convention and related agreements. The figures are those provided by the EEC. All over-deliveries and any under-deliveries falling with in a small tolerance are set against the following year's agreed quantities, but separate arrangements apply to shortfalls in excess of this tolerance. In the 1975–76 delivery year—1st July to 30th June—six countries failed to deliver their agreed quantities. In the case of Fiji and Mauritius this was accepted as being due to reasons of force majeure but Maritius' shortfall was, at her own request, carried forward into the following delivery year.In the case of the Congo, Kenya, Surinam and Uganda the Commission did not regard the shortfalls as being due to
force majeure but following representations from the ACP States the Community agreed as an autonomous political gesture to allow an additional period for delivery of these shortfalls up to 31st December 1977. Since this delivery will be in addition to the agreed quantities for the 1976–77 delivery year it is too early to indicate what the final over or under-delivery will be for the four countries concerned. Because some ACP sugar is delivered to other member States of the Community it is not possible to give an estimate of deliveries for the current delivery year.
All figures in metric tonnes White Sugar equivalent
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Period to 30th June 1975 agreed quantity
| Over/under delivery
| 1975–76 agreed quantity
| Over/under delivery
| 1976–77 agreed quantity
| Over/under delivery
| 1977–78 agreed quantity
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| Barbados | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | 29,600 | -835 | 49,300 | +194 | 49,300 | -47 | 49,300 |
| Belize | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | 14,800 | +121 | 39,400 | +608 | 39,400 | +1,908 | 39,400 |
| Congo | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | 0 | — | 10,000 | -10,000 | 10,000 | — | — |
| Fiji | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | 25,600 | +2,824 | 163,600 | 0 | 163,600 | +665 | 163,600 |
| Guy | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | 29,600 | +89 | 157,700 | -3,451 | 157,700 | +1,501 | 157,700 |
| India | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | 22,000 | -382 | 25,000 | -473 | 25,000 | +1,195 | 25,000 |
| Jamaica | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | 83,800 | -38 | 118,300 | +1,580 | 118,300 | +1,237 | 118,300 |
| Kenya | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | 0 | — | 5,000 | -5,000 | 5,000 | — | — |
| Madagascar | … | … | … | … | … | … | 2,000 | +51 | 10,000 | +85 | 10,000 | +109 | 10,000 | |
| Malawi | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | 0 | — | 20,000 | +3 | 20,000 | +466 | 20,000 |
| Mauritius | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | 65,300 | +154 | 487,200 | -65,463 | 487,200 | -3,552 | 487,200 |
| St. Kitts/Nevis/Anguilla | … | … | … | … | 8,000 | -91 | 14,800 | +2,856 | 14,800 | +664 | 14,800 | |||
| Surinam | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | 0 | — | 4,000 | -3,904 | 4,000 | — | — |
| Swaziland | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | 19,700 | +5,541 | 116,400 | +3,444 | 116,400 | +6,090 | 116,400 |
| Tanzania | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | 0 | — | 10,000 | +125 | 10,000 | +595 | 10,000 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | … | … | … | … | … | 54,200 | +121 | 69,000 | +59 | 69,000 | +3,29 | 69,000 | ||
| Uganda | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | 0 | — | 5,000 | -2,042 | 5,000 | — | — |