A National Advisory Service for Agriculture and Horticulture

Abstract

IN a statement in Parliament on January 20, dealing with the future of agricultural education, the Minister of Agriculture said that after careful consideration of the Luxmoore Report the Government has concluded that the provincial and county agricultural advisory services should be unified and combined into one national service for the whole country, directly under the Minister of Agriculture and financed wholly by the Exchequer. This statement, together with the publication of the Luxmoore Report, has concentrated attention on the organization and function of the existing agricultural advisory services and on how far the proposals of the Luxmoore Committee would strengthen and unify them. This subject was discussed at a recent meeting of the Association of Applied Biology, when Prof. W. B. Brierley was the principal speaker.