Committee Reports::Interim and Final Report - Appropriation Accounts 1967 - 1968::12 November, 1970::Appendix

APPENDIX 9.

GAELTACHT GLASSHOUSE SCHEME.

Summary of Returns, 1965 to 1968.


Area

Year

Number of houses planted

Average weight of tomatoes produced per house

Average gross value of tomatoes per grower i.e. after deduction of marketing expenses

Average gross price per lb., i.e. after deduction of marketing expenses

Average amount of operating costs per grower

Average amount of loan repayment and interest per grower

* Average net value of tomatoes per grower

 

 

 

cwt.

£

s.

d.

s.

d.

£

s.

d.

£

s.

d.

£

s.

d.

Connemara

1965

64

13½

78

19

9

1

29

14

5

3

15

1

45

10

3

(Houses without

1966

60

16

99

19

6

1

31

2

5

3

11

9

65

5

4

heating systems)

1967

51

14

102

7

9

1

25

13

11

4

11

7

70

2

2

 

1968

50

18¾

119

4

11

1

31

2

1

4

1

3

85

1

6

Connemara

1965

28

12½

77

2

6

1

29

14

5

7

10

2

39

17

11

(Houses with

1966

25

12¾

74

0

4

1

31

2

5

5

19

0

36

18

11

heating systems)

1967

22

10½

75

13

7

1

26

17

2

6

4

9

40

4

8

 

1968

14

15¾

102

3

3

1

2

31

4

0

8

7

9

63

11

3

Donegal

1965

35

13½

71

3

5

 

11¼

32

1

2

2

0

3

37

2

0

(Houses without

1966

31

13½

74

19

10

1

0

31

8

1

2

4

5

41

7

4

heating systems)

1967

22

15½

109

2

8

1

3

28

1

1

8

2

2

69

19

7

 

1968

17

17½

101

18

8

1

31

6

4

6

13

11

64

0

2

Donegal

1965

58

23

179

2

11

1

32

1

2

20

14

0

126

7

9

(Houses with

1966

56

22¼

190

7

0

1

31

8

1

22

7

11

136

11

0

heating systems)

1967

53

21¼

201

7

4

1

30

3

3

20

18

7

146

17

9

 

1968

47

21¼

152

10

11

1

32

6

11

11

7

10

105

2

6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* This figure does not take into account the glasshouse maintenance expenses of growers or the cost of fuel provided by them for the heating systems.