AID TO AGRICULTURE
DECISIONS INI BRITAIN
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, May 18,
The Minister of Agriculture, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, announced in the House of Commons today that the Government had decided to give further assistance to agriculture by the application of the principle of price in surance to sheep, barley, and oats.
For oats the cost would be £2,120. 000 in respect of th< 1938 crop, and the minimum liability in any one year in future would be £4,500,000. For barley the additional cost for the 1938 crop would be £800,000, and the Minister could make no estimate regarding future costs. In the case of sheep, the expected cost would average about £900,000 a year.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 117, 20 May 1939, Page 16
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115AID TO AGRICULTURE Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 117, 20 May 1939, Page 16
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