The Sugar Beet (Research and Education) Order 1998

Article 1(2)

SCHEDULE PROGRAMME FOR THE YEAR 1998–99 OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN MATTERS AFFECTING THE GROWING OF HOME-GROWN BEET

PART I PROJECTS TO BE CARRIED OUT BY THE PERSONS OR BODIES DESCRIBED IN RELATION THERETO AND ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE TO BE INCURRED IN CARRYING THEM OUT

	£	£
A. RESEARCH
1.  Agronomy, physiology, nutrition, trials, pest and disease control, crop improvement: Broom’s Barn Experimental Station	1,008,463
2.  Crop production and agronomy, variety assessments and trials, machinery development, precision farming, physiology, new chemistry, quantifying beet damage, beet handling: British Sugar p.l.c.	339,391
3.  Variety Trials: National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge	144,641
4.  Beet physiology, aphid investigations, statistical techniques: Rothamsted Experimental Station	154,577
5.  Precision farming, mechanical methods of weed control: Silsoe Research International	37,537
6.  Handling and interpreting data from electronic sugar beet, reducing sugar losses in storage: ADAS Silsoe	31,882
7.  Nitrogen and heavy metals in pig manure: ADAS Terrington	6,090
8.  Potassium in farm manures: ADAS Gleadthorpe	20,367
9.  Chitin control of pests and diseases: ADAS High Mowthorpe	10,102
10.  Reducing post harvest sugar losses from bruising: Harper Adams Agricultural College	8,000
11.  Research project evaluation	35,000
		1,796,050
B. EDUCATION
1.  Broom’s Barn Experimental Station	89,682
2.  British Sugar p.l.c.	170,551
3.  National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge	3,473
4.  ADAS Guildford	6,000
		269,706
		2,065,756

PART II ESTIMATE OF GENERAL EXPENSES

	£	£
1.  Attendance fees and expenses of members and officers of the Sugar Beet Research and Education Committee and its sub-committees: (a) Great Britain	10,609
(b) Other	5,305
		15,914
2.  Administrative charges: (a) Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food	22,544
(b) National Audit Office	3,500
(c) National Debt Office, National Investment and Loans Office	6,000
		32,044
3.  Institut International de Recherches Betteravieres (IIRB): Subscriptions	16,656
Less, recoverable subscriptions	2,971
		13,685
4.  Contingencies		31,015
	b/f from Part I	2,065,756
Estimate of expenditure to be incurred in carrying out the programme		2,158,414