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3 unusual facts about Minister of Agriculture


Ailwyn Fellowes, 1st Baron Ailwyn

He was a member of Arthur Balfour's cabinet as President of the Board of Agriculture between March and December 1905.

Reginald Dorman-Smith

In the late 1930s, the British Government's agricultural policy came in for heavy criticism from the NFU, Parliament and the Press and in January 1939 Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain took the bold step of appointing Dorman-Smith as Minister of Agriculture.

Dorman-Smith started his career with a strong interest in agriculture, becoming President of the National Farmers Union (the NFU) at the age of 32, and then later Minister of Agriculture.


Abdi Ahmed Hussein

He is the Minister of Agriculture of Somalia, having been appointed to the position on 17 January 2014 by Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed.

Andrew Cahn

William Waldegrave MP, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and subsequently Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Dryden, Washington

Only the name Dryden was assigned to the area by the railroad in honor of Canadian horticulturist and Minister of Agriculture John Dryden who toured with Great Northern Railway president James J. Hill.

Gurdial Singh Dhillon

Dhillon served two terms as Speaker of Lok Sabha (1969–71 and 1971–75) and was Minister of Agriculture in the Indian Government (1986–1988).

Liri Belishova

She attended, along with Ramiz Alia, the marxist leninist institute of the Moscow State University in 1952–1954, and married, during this period her second husband, Maqo Çomo, then Minister of Agriculture.

Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs

In the 2009 cabinet reorganization after the election of President Jacob Zuma, the portfolio's responsibilities were divided and transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform.

Odeta Nishani

Her father originates from a Kosovo merchants' family that settled in Durrës in 1905, while her mother comes from the Karaosmani family, whose grandfather Qemal bej Karaosmani was one of the signers of the Albanian Declaration of Independence and who served as Minister of Agriculture in Ismail Qemali's government.

Peretz Naftali

In June 1952 he became Minister of Agriculture, a role he held until the 1955 elections, after which he reverted to being a Minister without Portfolio.

Second cabinet of Davíð Oddsson

Halldór Ásgrímsson replaced Guðmundur Kristján Bjarnason as Minister for the Environment and Minister of Agriculture.

Su Chia-chyuan

Currently the Secretary-General of the DPP, Su was formerly a legislator and later Pingtung County Commissioner, and held national posts as Minister of the Interior and Minister of Agriculture.

Yoshimasa Hayashi

After the LDP returned to power in the December 2012 general election Hayashi was appointed Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.


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Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed

A longtime member of the ruling People's Rally for Progress, he previously served as Minister of Agriculture from 2005 to 2011 and as Minister of Defense from 2011 to 2013.

Abdullahi Haji Hassan Mohamed Nuur

In August 2011, Nuur was appointed as Somalia's new Minister of Agriculture and Livestock by the previous Prime Minister, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali.

Agriculture in Tajikistan

In November 2004, Deputy Prime Minister of Agriculture Qozidavlat Qoimdodov noted that economic growth and enhancement of quality of agricultural output were the key components of the national policy of Tajikistan.

Al-Khasawneh

Fayez Essa Khasawneh (Former Minister of Agriculture / Former President of Yarmouk University / Former Chairman, Board of Trustees Of The German Jordanian University) / Former President and Chairman of the Board, Aqaba Region Authority / Former Secretary General Of The Arab Thought Forum / Chairman, Board of Trustees at Yarmouk University

Albert Klapstein

Klapstein was appointed as an ex officio member by Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development Shirley McClellan in July 2000.

Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio

He served as Minister of Agriculture in the second cabinet of Giuliano Amato and as Minister of Environment in the second cabinet of Romano Prodi.

Anton Apriantono

Anton Apriantono (born Serang, Banten; October 5, 1959) has been Indonesia's Minister of Agriculture since October 2004.

Arthur Lenk

Other visits to Baku were those of Israel's Minister of Agriculture Shalom Simhon in May 2008, Deputy Prime Minister Avigdor Lieberman in August 2007 and two visits of the Minister of National Infrastructures Binyamin Ben-Eliezer in June 2006 and June 2008 and visits of Azerbaijan's Ministers of Economic Development (February 2007), Emergency Situations (March 2007), Transportation (June 2007) and Ecology and Natural Resources (October 2007) to Israel.

Auguste-Célestin Gongarad Nkoua

At the time of the January 2002 constitutional referendum, Gongarad Nkoua, who was still serving as Minister of Agriculture, headed the National Electoral Commission's operations for Ouenzé, the fifth arrondissement of Brazzaville.

Carling Avenue

The road is named for John Carling, founder of Carling Brewery and Conservative MP and Senator, Postmaster General and Minister of Agriculture.

Cerrado

The 2006 World Food Prize was awarded to former Brazilian Minister of Agriculture Alysson Paolinelli, soil scientist Edson Lobato (also of Brazil), and American soil scientist A. Colin McClung for their leadership in soil science and policy implementation that opened the Cerrado to agricultural and food production.

Empress Yu Wenjun

In 327, Yu Liang further resolved on separating Su, then the governor of Liyang Commandery (歷陽, roughly modern Chaohu, Anhui) from his troops, and he promoted Su to be the minister of agriculture—a post that did not involve commanding troops.

Fred Peart, Baron Peart

He initially served as PPS to the Minister of Agriculture & Fisheries (Tom Williams).

Gabriel Janowski

Gabriel Janowski (born on 22 April 1947 in Konstantów) – Polish politician, activist of opposition in People's Republic of Poland, senator of the first term of office of Senate of the Republic of Poland, MP of first, third and fourth term of office of Sejm, from 1991 do 1993 the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Gerry Ritz

On August 14, 2007, Ritz was promoted to the Cabinet as Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food replacing Chuck Strahl.

Guy Scott

He was elected as Member of Parliament for Mpika on the MMD ticket in the National Assembly during the 1991 general election and was subsequently appointed as Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries.

Herbert Backe

Like Stuckart, who held the real power in the Interior Ministry (officially led by Wilhelm Frick) and Wilhelm Ohnesorge in the Reichspostministry (officially led by the conservative Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach), Backe was the de facto Minister of Agriculture under Richard Walther Darré, even before his promotion to that post.

Ipoola Alani Akinrinade

In General Ibrahim Babangida's government he was appointed Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Rural Development (1985–1986), Minister of Industries (1988 - February 1989) and Minister of Transport (1989).

João Baptista de Lacerda

Soon after, he was invited by the Minister of Agriculture of the Second Empire to be the associate director of the section of anthropology, zoology and paleontology of the recently created National Museum of Natural History of Rio de Janeiro, by Emperor D. Pedro II.

Laurent Lessard

On June 23, 2009, following a Cabinet shuffle, Lessard replaced Nathalie Normandeau as the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Regions and Land Occupancy while Claude Béchard became the new Minister of Agriculture.

Lefranc

Victor Lefranc (1809–1883), French lawyer and politician, moderated republican, Minister of Agriculture and Trade, then Interior Minister

Liku

Following the 2008 general election, its representative is Pokotoa Sipeli, who serves as Minister of Post and Telecommunications, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and Minister of Administrative Services.

Monpoint Jeune

On 17 October 1889, he was replaced as president by the minister of Agriculture, Florvil Hyppolite.

Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort

He entered the Senate in 1876, and was minister of agriculture in the Dufaure-Ricard cabinet of that year, retaining his portfolio in the Jules Simon ministry which fell on 16 May 1877.

Pokotoa Sipeli

Following the 2008 general election, he is a Member of the Niue Assembly, representing the constituency of Liku, and a member of Premier Toke Talagi's Cabinet, as Minister of Post and Telecommunications, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and Minister of Administrative Services.

Reuters Market Light

Following nearly 18 months of market research, prototyping and market trials, RML was launched in October 1, 2007 in Maharashtra by Sharad Pawar, the union minister of agriculture of India followed by launch in Punjab in 2008 by Mr. Prakash Badal, state’s Chief Minister.

Rulings of the Constitutional Court of Thailand

Major rulings having included the 1999 ruling that Deputy Minister of Agriculture Newin Chidchop could retain his Cabinet seat after being sentenced to imprisonment for defamation, the 2001 acquittal of Thaksin Shinawatra for filing an incomplete statement with the National Counter-Corruption Committee, the 2003 invalidation of Jaruvan Maintaka appointment as Auditor-General, and the 2006 invalidation of the nation-wide results of a House election.

Rural Solidarity

On November 30, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Andrzej Kacala met with a group of 30 representatives of farmers' unions founding committees from the Warsaw, Lublin, Siedlce, Skierniewice, and Wałbrzych Voivodeships, as well as from the WrześniaKonin, Golub-DobrzyńKujawy, and the Holy Cross Mountains regions.

Saimaa ringed seal

The most effective way for this would be a legal ban, but the minister of agriculture and forestry, Sirkka-Liisa Anttila has so far been unwilling to use any general bans in the protection of the Saimaa seal.

Sam Sesay

Joseph Sam Sesay (born on November 26, 1959 in Kamasasa, Kambia District) is a Sierra Leonean politician and currently serves as Sierra Leone Minister of Agriculture.

Tom Williams

Tom Williams, Baron Williams of Barnburgh (1888–1967), British Labour Party politician, MP 1922–1959, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries 1945–1951