Cereal Acreages Decrease

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 286, 2 December 1938, Page 6

Cereal Acreages Decrease

ESTIMATED RETURNS RELEASED Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. The estimated returns for wheat, oats and barley this year compared with the actual returns for the past harvest show a decline in acreages of wheat and oats, but a slight increase in the case of barley. The estimates are contained in a return by the Government Statistician and appear in to-night’s Gazette. The total area sown in wheat for the 1937-38 season was 119,842 acres, while the estimated area for 1939 totals 1888,000, comprising 3200 acres in the North Island and 185,700 in the south. The area sown in oats in 1937-38 was 259,763 acres, while the estimated total for the present season is 26,300 acres, comprised of 13,000 acres in the North Island and 250,000 in the South. Barley acreage last year was 31,604 acres and the estimate for this year is 33,?00, comprised of 3200 acres in the North Island and 30,500 in the South. The final area planted in potatoes laßt year was 23,090 acres, 5442 acres being in the North Island and 17,648 in the South,while the estimated return for ! this year is 20,000 acres, 5300 being in jthe North Island and 14,700 in the l South.