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Horticultural Crops

Volume 28: debated on Monday 26 July 1982

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asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the acreage of horticultural crops grown in England and Wales in 1971 and 1981, with details of type of crop and area of horticultural glasshouses.

The information is as follows:

(area in hectares)
19711981
Total horticulture*264,427236,146
of which:
vegetables176,447167,799
Orchard: commercial54,68038,223
non-commercial4,7502,131
Small fruit†12,66514,122
Hardy nursery stock6,4956,486
Bulbs and flowers7,5615,255
Glasshouse‡1,8292,130
*excluding minor holdings
† excluding area grown under orchard trees
‡excluding holdings with an area of glass of less than 1,000 square metres.

Source: MAFF June census.