Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Marketing Divisions: Registered Files, Marketing Organisation (MAO Series)

This series relates to agricultural and horticultural marketing policy, organisation and development including the administration of Marketing Schemes (for hops, wool, milk, eggs, potatoes etc.) under the Agricultural Marketing Acts 1931-1958; grants for farmers' co-operatives; the Market Development Scheme (began 1964); the Agricultural and Horticultural Co-operation Scheme (1967) and Central Council for Agricultural and Horticultural Co-operation.

For records of the Horticultural Marketing Council see MAF 384

For related records on meat marketing see MAF 246

For other records relating to Potato marketing see MAF 307

Some files have been re-registered into the GU file series; see MAF 317

Some MAO files are also in MAF 34

From 1976 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food