Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Horticulture Divisions: Registered Files, Beekeeping and Honey (AX Series)

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Reference: MAF 409
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Horticulture Divisions: Registered Files, Beekeeping and Honey (AX Series)
Description:

The records in this series relate to the oversight and regulation by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of commercial beekeeping and honey producing operations, and deal with honey supply and quality issues, diseases of bees, environmental threats to bees, research into beekeeping, advice to beekeepers and liaison with beekeeping organisations.

Date: 1965-2014
Arrangement:

Former file reference

Related material:

For earlier files on beekeeping and the production of honey see MAF 126

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: AX file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Horticulture Division II, 1963-1977

Physical description: 95 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2000 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Accruals: Occasional further accruals are expected into this series.
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1965, responsibility for control of 'hobby' horticultural activities, including beekeeping, passed from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to the Ministry of Land and Natural Resources. Horticulture Division II handled the remaining commercial beekeeping organisations for which MAFF retained responsibility.

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