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unusual facts about Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries


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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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.