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 |