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Article 1(2)

SCHEDULEPROGRAMME FOR THE YEAR 1999–2000 OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN MATTERS AFFECTING THE GROWING OF HOME-GROWN BEET

PART IPROJECTS 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 Station888,250
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.422,625
3.Variety Trials: National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge148,980
4.Beet physiology, aphid investigations, statistical techniques: Rothamsted Experimental Station134,752
5.Precision farming, mechanical methods of weed control: Silsoe Research Institute48,610
6.Handling and interpreting data from electronic sugar beet, reducing sugar losses in storage: ADAS Silsoe32,744
7.Chitin control of pests and diseases: ADAS High Mowthorpe9,459
8.Reducing post harvest sugar losses from bruising: Harper Adams Agricultural College44,179
9.Diagnostic methods: Central Science Laboratory16,199
10.Herbicide Tolerance: Morley Research Centre5,986
11.Research project evaluation35,000
1,786,784
B.EDUCATION
1.Broom’s Barn Experimental Station102,880
2.British Sugar p.l.c.184,509
3.National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge3,578
4.Morley Research Centre30,795
321,762
2,108,546

PART IIESTIMATE 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

10,927

(b)Other

5,464
16,391
2.

Administrative charges

(a)

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

23,505

(b)National Audit Office

3,500

(c)National Debt Office, National Investment and Loans Office

6,000
33,005
3.Institut International de Recherches Betteravières (IIRB):
Subscriptions17,156
Less, recoverable subscriptions3,060
14,096
4.Contingencies7,176
b/f from Part I2,108.546
Estimate of expenditure to be incurred in carrying out the programme2,179,214