The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

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Identifikator:: 1757028552

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-135495

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: XV, 152 Seiten; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter II. The agricultural area

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CHAPTER II.-THE AGRICULTURAL AREA. Ll. The agricultural area in relation to the total area of the country.—According to the latest official survey, the total area of England and Wales, exclusive of inland water and tidal land, is 37,136,000 acres. Of this, 25,755,000 acres were returned to the Ministry in 1925 as being under cultivation either as arable land or permanent pasture in holdings of over one acre. The occupiers of these holdings also returned a total area of 3,920,000 acres described as mountain, heath, moor or down land or other rough land used for grazing and forming parts of the holdings. In addition to this area actually returned by occupiers, there is an estimated area of 1,100,000 acres of similar land (mostly sheep runs) grazed in common, that is over which various persons have grazing rights. There is thus a total area of 30,780.000 acres accounted for in the Agricultural Returns. In addition there are holdings of one acre or less, and allot- ments which, though not included in the Agricultural Returns, have a productive value and need to be taken into account in estimating the agricultural area. There are no definite particulars as to holdings of one acre or less, but they probably represent at least 50,000 acres while the acreage of allotments in 1925 was ascertained to be about 163,000 acres.* Some allowance needs also to be made for the holdings which should be included in the Returns but which escape enumeration. At a rough approxima- tion it may be assumed that the inclusion of these missing holdings would increase the cultivated area by 100,000 acres. In the aggregate then the total area which is used for agri- cultural or horticultural purposes in England and Wales comes to over 31 million acres. made up as follows — Arable land and permanent grass as returned by occupiers - - - - - < - Rough grazing land returned by occupiers as part of their holdings - - - - = 7 Common land and mountain and heath land, grazed in common - - - Holdings which escape enumeration Holdings of one acre or less * Allotments = Acres. 25,755,000 3,920,000 1,104,000 100,000 50,000 163.000 31,092.000 * Prior to the year 1895, returns were obtained of holdings of one acre or less, and in 1895 holdings of exactly one acre accounted for 35,500 acres, but 20,000 of these holdings were allotments. The number of holdings of less than 1 acre, excluding allotments, in 1895, was 50,000. The area of allotments in 1925 is based on returns collected from I.ocal Authorities, and details are given in the Annual Report for 1925 of Proceedings under the Allotments Acts.

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