Series
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and predecessor: Economics Divisions:...
Catalogue reference: MAF 283
What's it about?
MAF 283
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.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MAF 283
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and predecessor: Economics Divisions: Registered Files, Economics of Farming (EF Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1925-2003
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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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).
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some files re-registered into the AN file series; see
Some early EF files are also 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)
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EF file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- 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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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749 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1993 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1942 onwards
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10683/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: MAF
Records created or inherited by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments,...
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Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and predecessor: Economics Divisions: Registered Files, Economics of Farming (EF Series)