asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the income of farmers in Northern Ireland for each of the last five years for which the information is available, showing in real and actual terms the income from farms as specified in the groupings used to determine the annual management standards and also the total net income for farmers in Northern Ireland.
[pursuant to his reply, 13 November 1979, c. 560…: Incomes of farmers according to farm type are estimated from a sample of farmers who co-operate in the Northern Ireland farms management survey. Because the composition of this sample changes from year to year, changes in the income of farmers is best shown by comparing the incomes of identical samples of farms in the survey in consecutive pairs of years. The following table shows the weighted average income of farmers in actual and
| NEN INCOME PER FARM IN NORTHERN IRELAND IN CURRENT MONEY TERMS BY TYPE OF FARM 1972–73 TO 1977–78 | |||||||||
| Type | Dairying | Dairying, Pigs and Poultry | Mixed | Cattle and Sheep | Cattle, Sheep and Pigs | Pigs and Poultry | All Types | ||
| £ per farm | |||||||||
| 1972–73 | … | … | 3,125 | 3,160 | 2,954 | 2,457 | 2,498 | 3,683 | 2,915 |
| 1973–74 | … | … | 2,530 | 2,781 | 2,488 | 1,117 | 2,396 | 5,194 | 2,393 |
| 1973–74 | … | … | 2,818 | 2,494 | 2,789 | 1,251 | 2,593 | 6,218 | 2,572 |
| 1974–75 | … | … | 2,241 | 2,510 | 2,091 | 886 | 1,893 | 4,831 | 2,111 |
| 1974–75 | … | … | 2,209 | 2,357 | 2,756 | 892 | 1,724 | 5,272 | 2,224 |
| 1975–76 | … | … | 5,676 | 6,309 | 8,022 | 3,663 | 5,479 | 11,934 | 5,989 |
| 1975–76 | … | … | 5,352 | 6,622 | 8,175 | 4,000 | 6,292 | 12,068 | 5,861 |
| 1976–77 | … | … | 6,475 | 7,616 | 10,031 | 5,415 | 5,963 | 13,347 | 7,098 |
| 1976–77 | … | … | 6,749 | 7,264 | 9,278 | 5,882 | 6,375 | 9,602 | 7,092 |
| 1977–78 | … | … | 7,084 | 10,231 | 5,718 | 5,015 | 4,575 | 12,436 | 6,436 |
| Net Farm Income excludes Breeding Livestock Appreciation. | |||||||||
| NET INCOME PER FARM IN NORTHERN IRELAND | |||||||||
| BY TYPE OF FARM 1972–73 TO 1977–78 IN REAL TERMS* | |||||||||
| (Base year equals 1975–76) | |||||||||
| Type | Dairying | Dairying, Pigs and Poultry | Mixed | Cattle and Sheep | Cattle, Sheep and Pigs | Pigs and Poultry | All Types | ||
| £ per farm | |||||||||
| 1972–73 | … | … | 5,024 | 5,080 | 4,749 | 3,950 | 4,016 | 5,921 | 4,686 |
| 1973–74 | … | … | 3,704 | 4,072 | 3,643 | 1,635 | 3,508 | 7,605 | 3,504 |
| 1973–74 | … | … | 4,126 | 3,652 | 4,083 | 1,832 | 3,796 | 9,104 | 3,766 |
| 1974–75 | … | … | 2,798 | 3,134 | 2,610 | 1,106 | 2,363 | 6,031 | 2,635 |
| 1974–75 | … | … | 2,758 | 2,943 | 3,441 | 1,114 | 2,152 | 6,582 | 2,777 |
| 1975–76 | … | … | 5,676 | 6,309 | 8,022 | 3,663 | 5,479 | 11,934 | 5,989 |
| 1975–76 | … | … | 5,352 | 6,622 | 8,175 | 4,000 | 6,292 | 12,068 | 5,861 |
| 1976–77 | … | … | 5,606 | 6,594 | 8,685 | 4,688 | 5,163 | 11,556 | 6,145 |
| 1976–77 | … | … | 5,843 | 6,289 | 8,033 | 5,093 | 5,519 | 8,313 | 6,140 |
| 1977–78 | … | … | 5,346 | 7,722 | 4,315 | 3,785 | 3,453 | 9,386 | 4,857 |
| * Adjusted according to changes in the United Kingdom Index of Retail Prices. | |||||||||
| Net Farm Income excludes Breeding Livestock Appreciation. | |||||||||