Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Agricultural Development and Advisory Service: Registered Files, Poultry Advisory Services (PA Series)

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Reference: MAF 414
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Agricultural Development and Advisory Service: Registered Files, Poultry Advisory Services (PA Series)
Description:

This series contains policy files concerning advice on best practice in poultry farming given by the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service to farmers from 1971.

Date: 1968-1979
Related material:

For earlier records on education services for poultry farmers see MAF 54

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PA file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 10 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2000 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Custodial history: Agricultural Development and Advisory Service became an executive agency, the Farming and Rural Conservation Agency (FRCA), responsible for its own records management in 1992. PA series files in use at that time, (or created since), transferred to the custody of FRCA. Pre 1992 files remained in the custody and were the responsibility of MAFF.
Accumulation dates: Series began in 1971
Selection and destruction information: Files appraised by Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food using their internal guidance under Public Record Office supervision. PRO acquisition policy criteria 2.2.2.2. Only small numbers of files are likely to be selected, as most files in the series are case papers, not policy files.
Accruals: Series is accruing

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