Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Fertilisers and Seeds Division and successors: Registered Files, Fertilisers and Seeds (SDB series)

The series related initially to both seeds and fertilisers. In 1955, however, seeds became the responsibility of Labour, Machinery and Seeds Division (and its successors), which used the SDS file series. It deals with regulation of supplies of fertilisers to farmers and growers, including many files on the Fertiliser Subsidy Schemes created under the Agriculture (Fertilizers) Act 1952.

Earlier files in the SDB series can be found in:

MAF 36

MAF 43

MAF 78

MAF 370

MAF 51

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Fertilisers and Seeds Division, 1943-1954

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

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Crop Production Division, 1956-1957

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

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Grassland and Crop Improvement Division, 1959-1969

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, International Cereals Division, 1955-1970