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Hill Farmers

Volume 75: debated on Wednesday 13 March 1985

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asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, further to his reply of 19 December, Official Report, column 200, concerning support to hill farmers, and so on whether the figure of 70 per cent. includes the cost of deficiency payments on sheepmeat; and what is the percentage contribution of these payments in both cases.

Variable premium payments are generally consolidated within the price received by farmers for fat lambs sold on a deadweight basis but for lambs sold on a liveweight basis through auctions variable premiums are paid direct to the farmers. For the farm management survey in England direct receipts of these premiums are conbined with all revenue from sales of fat lambs, including any consolidated premiums, to give a total revenue figure. It is therefore not possible to distinguish the proportion of net farm income accounted

19791980198119821983*1984
Gross EC expenditure (MECU)1527314185139
Rate of aid range during the marketing year as percentage of the minimum producer price
(a) Animal feed27–4024–4528–3839–4425–44†44–48
(b) Human consumption‡2219–32†19–28
Note:
Separate information for animal feed and human consumption aid expenditure is not available.
* Provisional.
† 1984–85 marketing year to date.
‡ This scheme was introduced in 1982.