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Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and...
Catalogue reference: MAF 120
What's it about?
MAF 120
Files of the various divisions concerned with domestic production of cereals and sugar beet. They also cover policy in various fields, including compensatory payments for coastal flooding, the allocation of ploughing grants and the problems of...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MAF 120
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Cereals Divisions: Registered Files, Crop Production (CPR Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1932-1973
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the various divisions concerned with domestic production of cereals and sugar beet. They also cover policy in various fields, including compensatory payments for coastal flooding, the allocation of ploughing grants and the problems of increasing acreage under tillage. Some files relate to marketing policy and to guaranteed prices for cereals and sugar beet. A few files refer to food defence plans drawn up during the war.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Files are arranged by former reference number within these sequences of piece numbers: MAF 120/1-3, MAF 120/4-191, MAF 120/192-196.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For further records relating to flood damage see MAF 221
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Other files in the CPR series are in:
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- CPR file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Crops and Feeding Stuffs Division, 1952-1955
- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Crops, Feeding Stuffs and Subsidies Division, 1946-1952
- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Supplies Division I, 1940-1948
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Crop Improvement Division, 1969-1970
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Crop Production Division, 1956-1957
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Defence, Emergencies and Crop Improvement Division, 1970-1974
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Grassland and Crop Improvement Division, 1959-1969
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Sugar and Crop Production Division, 1957-1959
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 201 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1943
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10520/
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Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Cereals Divisions: Registered Files, Crop Production (CPR Series)
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