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An agriculture ministry (also called an agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture. The ministry is often headed by a minister for agriculture.
Merged with the Ministry of Community Development and Cooperation to form the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Community Development and Cooperation. The new ministry was renamed the Ministry of Agriculture in 1971, with four departments. [2] Agriculture January 1966 1983 The Department of Food was separated from the ministry, and elevated to the ...
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and production, works to assure food safety, protects natural resources, fosters rural communities and works to end hunger in the United States and internationally.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare consists of the following two departments. [5]Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare:- This Department's responsibilities are assigned to it in the Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules, 1961 as amended from time to time.
S. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy (Serbia) Ministry of Agriculture (Somalia) Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (South Africa)
In 1947, the Department of Agriculture was rededicated to the Ministry of Agriculture. [4] [5] The present nomenclature of Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare and Department of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare is attributed to the two agencies vide cabinet resolution of 2015. [6]
The department was formed in June 2001, under the leadership of Margaret Beckett, when the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) was merged with part of the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) and with a small part of the Home Office.
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is a Ministry of the Federal Government of Nigeria that has the mandate to ensure food security in crop, livestock and fisheries, stimulate agricultural employment and services, promote the production and supply of raw materials to Agro-allied industries, provide markets for the products of the industrial sector, generate foreign ...