Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
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found: Wikipedia, viewed 9 Feb. 2017:under Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, United Kingdom (Board of Agriculture created by the Board of Agriculture Act 1889; from 1903 called the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, and from 1919 the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries; renamed as the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1955; MAFF was formally dissolved on 27 March 2002, having been merged with the part of the Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions that dealt with the environment (and with a small part of the Home Office) to create a new government department, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in 2001)
found: National Archives Discovery website, viewed 9 Feb. 2017:under Records of the Ministry of Food (the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was formed in April 1955 when the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries was amalgamated with the second Ministry of Food, set up in September 1939; the first Ministry of Food was established on 22 December 1916 and dissolved on 31 March 1921)
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1980-06-18: new
2017-02-10: revised
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