Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and predecessors: Seeds Correspondence and Papers

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Reference: MAF 78
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and predecessors: Seeds Correspondence and Papers
Description:

This series contains files which deal with the supply of farm and garden seeds; the control of exports and imports of seeds; the operations of the Seeds Import Board; liaison with the Seed Production Committee and the Seeds Advisory Committee; the administration of orders made under the defence regulations for the maintenance of supplies and essential services; and also matters concerning the production, distribution and use of seeds, arising in connection with the administration of the Seeds Acts, 1920 and 1925.

Contains some files re-registered from the SDB file series (MAF 273) and the SDS file series: MAF 370
Date: 1918-1961
Related material:

For further records on standards see Division within MAF
Separated material:

Some SDS files re-registered in the AK file series; see MAF 288
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Fertilisers and Seeds Division, Seeds Branch, 1946-1954

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Supplies Division III, Seeds Branch, 1940-1945

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fertilisers, Seeds and Hill Farming Division, Seeds Branch, 1955-1955

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Labour, Machinery and Seeds Division, Seeds Branch, 1956-1959

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Labour, Safety and Seeds Division, Seeds Branch, 1960-1964
Physical description: 70 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Administrative / biographical background:

Important orders made by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries regarding seeds included:

  • (1) the Agricultural Seeds Order, 1940. This Order made it necessary for every person carrying on any undertaking in England and Wales which involved the production, storage, distribution and use of seeds, to keep records and to furnish estimates and returns relating to that undertaking.
  • 2) The Agricultural and Vegetable Seeds Order, 1941. This Order restricted the importation into the United Kingdom, and the buying and selling, of certain specified seeds, to licensed seedsmen.
  • (3) The Growing of Seed Crops (Control) Orders, 1942 and 1943. These Orders controlled the growing of certain specified crops for the production of seeds except under and in accordance with the terms of a licence granted by or on behalf of the minister.

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