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unusual facts about Ministry of Agriculture


Catherine L. Malone

From January to August of 2001 she worked for Conservation of St. Lucian Iguanas as an outreach and education coordinator at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.


Environmentally Sensitive Area

Originally it was administered by Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, then the Rural Development Service for the United Kingdom Governments Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and currently Natural England following successive re-organisation of the departments.

Hirotsu Ryurō

The following year, at the invitation of his father's friend Godai Tomoatsu, he moved to Osaka, and obtained a position as a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce from 1881-1885.

Hitoshi Goto

A native of Kofu, Yamanashi and graduate of Tohoku University, he worked at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from 1980 to 1995.

Horace Francis Barnes

From 1924 to 1927 he was a Ministry of Agriculture Research Scholar at The College of St Gregory and St Martin at Wye in England and New York State Museum.

Horticulture Research International

The HRI was constituted in May 1990 from the AFRC Institute of Horticultural Research Stations at Wellesbourne (the National Vegetable Research Station), East Malling (the East Malling Research Station) and Littlehampton (the Glasshouse Crops Research Institute), the Hop Unit at Wye College and the ADAS Experimental Stations of MAFF at Efford, Kirton and Stockbridge.

Lawrence Macrides

On his return from his studies, Lawrence started working for the Ministry of Agriculture as a Fisheries and Marine Officer, and he started playing for the Limassol Crusaders where he won his first International Cap against Greece in March 2007.

Laxton Castle

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the property frequently changed hands before coming in 1788 to Charles Pierrepont, 1st Earl Manvers, whose family retained it until 1952, when it was sold to the Ministry of Agriculture.

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.

Maritime law enforcement agencies in China

The China Fisheries Law Enforcement Command (FLEC; Chinese: 中国渔政) was an organ of the Fisheries Management Bureau under the Ministry of Agriculture.

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.

Richard A. E. North

North and Booker wrote a special edition for Private Eye on the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak, describing the subsequent merger of the Agriculture (MAFF) and Environment ministries to form the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) as the "most cynical makeover since Windscale changed its name to Sellafield".


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Agriculture in Haiti

Neither the government nor the private sector invested much in rural ventures; in FY 1989 only 5 percent of the national budget went to the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Rural Development (Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Resources Naturelles et du Développement Rural—MARNDR).

Andrés Felipe Arias Leiva

On 16 February 2004, Arias was appointed Deputy Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development serving under Minister Carlos Gustavo Cano Sanz, leaving his job as Director of Macroeconomics at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit.

Green Mada'in Association for Agricultural Development

Efforts to form the cooperative began in 2008 with the support of 47 Mada’in Qada agricultural associations, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and the Iraq Ministry of Agriculture.

Jacques Berthomeau

Jacques Berthomeau is a wine consultant commissioned by the French Ministry of Agriculture to prepare a report in 2001, now known as The Berthomeau Report, to "establish the goals and means to be deployed in terms of people, regulations and finance for a winning strategy for French wine as we approach the year 2010".

Joji Kotobalavu

On 23 September 2005, he was made to apologise to the High Court for making statements defending the Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, against allegations of involvement in a Ministry of Agriculture scandal, in which more than F$30 million was allegedly misappropriated.

Kingsely Namakhwa

He is the current Deputy Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development together with Deputy Minister Margaret Mauwa in the September 2011 Cabinet of Malawi under the Minister Peter Mwanza.

Leipziger Platz

Prior to the war, the square was home to the Reichsmarineamt (Reich Navy Office, originally on Leipziger Platz 13, moved to No. 17/Voßstraße No. 20 in the 1900s), the Wertheim flagship department store (numbers 12-13), the Mosse-Palais (headquarters of the German publisher Hans Lachmann-Mosse, Leipziger Platz 15), Palast-Hotel (No. 18-19) and the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture (No. 6-9).

Loughgall

In 1947 the estate was purchased from Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, a descendant of the original owner, by the (then) Ministry of Agriculture.

Mohammad Asef Rahimi

Asia Times reported that on November 17, 2009, two employees of the Ministry of Agriculture had the home they shared with their extended family raided by American special forces.

Philippe Berre

In 2010, he impersonated an official of the French ministry of Agriculture sent to Charron, Charente-Maritime in order to assist with relief efforts after the Xynthia windstorm.

Yangtze Freshwater Dolphin Expedition 2006

The expedition was led by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and brought together experts from international institutes like the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Hubbs-Seaworld Institute from San Diego and the Fisheries Research Agency in Japan.

Yoshikazu Kawaguchi

In 2008 he spoke at the 17th National Gathering of Natural Farming Practitioners along with Manabu Sakai (member of House of Representatives) and representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Ministry of Environment and the Agricultural and Life Sciences Department of University of Tokyo.