Agriculture in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland has a splendid record in its war-time agricultural production, states the Daily Telegraph, London. Ollicial statistics show that there has been a 78 per cent increase in the tillage area since 1939, against a 89 per cent increase in England and Wales, and 85.9 for the United Kingdom. In this period crop acreage in Northern Ireland increased from 470,828 in 1939 to 850,730 last year. This year oats, potatoes and ilax between them account for 91 per cent of the ploughed area in Northern Ireland. By far the biggest crop is oats, representing more than 52 per cent of the whole area. Cattle, numbering 885,799, reached the highest figures ever recorded.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21603, 4 January 1945, Page 4
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117Agriculture in Northern Ireland Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21603, 4 January 1945, Page 4
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