ESTIMATED AREAS UNDER CEREALS AND POTATOES.
The following estimates of the areas under wheat, oats, and barley in the Dominion for the current season were issued by the Government Statistician at date 3rd November, the figures being based on a card census : Wheat, 255,000 acres ; oats, 303,000 acres ; barley, 22,000 acres. The corresponding final totals for the preceding season (1927-28) were 262,799 acres of wheat, 303,708 acres of oats, and 21,752 acres, of barley. Wheat, therefore, has an estimated decrease in area this season of 7,799 acres, oats a decrease of 708 acres, and barley an increase of 248 acres. ...
Also from a card census and at date 3rd November the Statistician'estimates this season’s area under potatoes as 21,100 acres. The corresponding final figures for the 1927-28 season were 21,693 acres. Only holdings of 1 acre and over outside borough boundaries are covered by these figures ; a fair aggregate area of potatoes is also grown on smaller holdings and within boroughs. Reckoned on the average of the last five seasons—5-34 tons per acre— total yield from this season’s area would be 112,674 tons, as compared with a total actual yield of 121,402 tons for, 1927-28.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5, 20 November 1928, Page 362
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195ESTIMATED AREAS UNDER CEREALS AND POTATOES. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5, 20 November 1928, Page 362
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