Catalogue description Colonial Office: Colonial Products Laboratory and Tropical Products Institute: Colonial Development Corporation Agricultural Projects, Registered Files

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Title: Colonial Office: Colonial Products Laboratory and Tropical Products Institute: Colonial Development Corporation Agricultural Projects, Registered Files
Description:

Registered files of the Colonial Products Laboratory and its successor, the Tropical Products Institute, relating to their involvement with the Colonial Development Corporation Agricultural Projects Panel of Scientific Advisers. The files consist mainly of copies of the agenda, minutes and papers of the Panel.
Date: 1954-1958
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Colonial Products Laboratory, 1953-1957

Tropical Products Institute, 1957-
Physical description: 8 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

The Colonial Development Corporation was established in 1948 by the Overseas Resources Development Act and obtained its present title in 1963 under the terms of the Commonwealth Development Act. This latter Act extended the corporation's area of operations, as did the Overseas Resources Development Act 1969, which enabled the corporation, with ministerial approval, to operate in any country outside the United Kingdom. The minister concerned was, and is, the Minister for Overseas Development, who appoints the corporation's members.

The basic purposes of the corporation are to assist the economic development of dependent territories in the Commonwealth; of territories which have achieved independence since 1948; and, with ministerial approval, of any country outside the United Kingdom.

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