Papers bearing on the history and organisation of the department and records of various departmental and other committees, including earlier records of the Copyhold, Enclosure and Tithe Commissions and of the County War Agricultural Executive Committees and the County Agricultural Executive Committees.
There is also a file containing plans drawn up in 1936 for the operation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in wartime, plans which were very largely brought into operation in 1939. Contains some papers re-registered from the EE file series (MAF 183), EP file series (MAF 184) and REG files series: MAF 269