HIS year marks the 230th anniversary of the establishment of the Board of Agriculture and 21 years since its successor—the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) —was abolished. That ended the two centuries during which Government took farming seriously: a fundamental reversal that lies at the heart of the present Government’s rural problems. There was once political consensus when Labour and
F is for farming
Apr 12, 2023
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