Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Advisory Services Divisions: Registered Files, Administration of Experimental Centres (EHC Series)

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Details of MAF 116
Reference: MAF 116
Title: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Advisory Services Divisions: Registered Files, Administration of Experimental Centres (EHC Series)
Description:

Papers of successive Education and Advisory divisions of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food dealing with the headquarters administration of the National Agricultural Advisory Service's Experimental Husbandry Farms and Horticulture Stations, and its Horticulture Demonstration Stations. Files dealing with acquisition of property usually contain maps or plans.

Early files in this series often contain re-registered papers, mostly from the RG (MAF 117) and TPB series: MAF 33
Date: 1941-1985
Related material:

For further records on horticulture see Division within MAF
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: EHC file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 191 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2005 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

from 1971 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Accumulation dates: 1950 onwards
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

These farms and stations were acquired by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, from 1946 onwards, in connection with the establishment of the National Agricultural Advisory Service (NAAS). Sites were either purchased or rented from county councils, which had previously administered them through the County War Agricultural Executive Committees. A committee of the Agricultural Improvement Council of England and Wales, the Experimental Husbandry or Horticulture Committee, examined each site before a decision was reached that NAAS should take over its administration. The committees aimed to have a broad selection of sites that reflected varying farming and growing conditions and soil types across England and Wales, so allowing NAAS to give authoritative advice in most situations.

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