Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and predecessor: Economics Divisions: Registered Files, Economics of Farming (EF Series)

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Details of MAF 283
Reference: MAF 283
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and predecessor: Economics Divisions: Registered Files, Economics of Farming (EF Series)
Description:

The series covers all the economic aspects of farming e.g. investigations into costs of production, suitable levels for guaranteed prices and government subsidies, best economic practice in farm management, rates of wages, etc.
Date: 1925-2003
Arrangement:

Arranged in EF reference order (pieces 470, 601-603, 721-740 are out of sequence). This order is broadly chronological, since most files were created to deal with contemporary issues. An exception is MAF 283/558-588: these files were raised in 1965 to contain papers (mainly concerning annual reviews) of earlier date (1944-1955).
Separated material:

Some early EF files are also in MAF 38

Some files re-registered into the AN file series; see MAF 366
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: EF file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Economics and Statistics Division, 1942-1955

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Agricultural Economics Division, 1959-1965

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Agricultural Economics Unit, 1957-1959

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Economics Division, 1955-1957

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Economics Division, 1965-1967
Physical description: 749 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1993 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Accumulation dates: 1942 onwards
Accruals: Series is accruing

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