Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Cereals Division and predecessors: Registered Files, Home-Grown Cereals (HGC Series)

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Details of MAF 347
Reference: MAF 347
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Cereals Division and predecessors: Registered Files, Home-Grown Cereals (HGC Series)
Description:

Records relating to policy on the production, marketing, stockpiling and use of home-grown cereals (wheat, rye, barley and oats).

Includes pre-1964 papers re-registered from the ICN file series (MAF 308). Pieces MAF 347/83-164 were originally accessioned as MAF 279/58-139, and were transferred to MAF 347 in 2000.
Date: 1951-1974
Arrangement:

The files are arranged in HGC reference order within these accessions: MAF 347/1-44; MAF 347/45-81.
Separated material:

The HGC series replaced the earlier HG series. Many early HGC files are held with the HG series in MAF 279
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HGC file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Cereals Division, 1971-1989

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Home Grown Cereals, Eggs and Poultry Division, 1965-1970
Physical description: 165 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1997 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Accumulation dates: 1965 to 1984
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Home-Grown Cereals Authority was a statutory body created by the Cereals Act 1965, with the basic purpose of improving the marketing of home-grown cereals. Ministers appointed its members (3-5 independent, 9 farmers, and 9 users or merchants). The Act specified its powers and responsibilities, classified as trading and non-trading. In 1958 the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food entered into an agreement with Cereals Committee Ltd over the management of government stockpiles.

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