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The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is a ministerial department of the government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture , fisheries and rural communities in the entire United Kingdom.
The Board of Agriculture Act 1889, passed on 12 August, established the Board of Agriculture and combined all government responsibilities for agricultural matters in one department. The first President of the new Board was the Rt. Hon. Henry Chaplin , there were 90 members of staff and the first annual estimate was for £55,000.
This was the best performance in UK agriculture since the 1990s. Agriculture employed 476,000 people, representing 1.5% of the workforce, down more than 32% since 1996. In terms of gross value added in 2009, 83% of the UK's agricultural income originated from England , 9% from Scotland , 4% from Northern Ireland and 3% from Wales .
The secretary of state has two main responsibilities at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to: bear overall responsibility for all departmental issues. lobby for the United Kingdom in other international negotiations on sustainable development and climate change.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is the government department responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in England.
Farmers in Northern Ireland took part in UK-wide protests on Saturday. ... “Our own Department of Agriculture, their take is that it will impact significantly, 50% of the farms.
Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Robert Goodwill: 5 March 2019 25 July 2019 Conservative: Theresa May: George Eustice: 25 July 2019 13 February 2020 Conservative: Boris Johnson: Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Victoria Prentis: 14 February 2020 16 September 2021 Conservative: Boris Johnson
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.