§ Colonel Carverasked the Minister of Agriculture what steps have been taken by the reconstituted Agricultural Improvement Council to evolve effective machinery for assisting British farmers to take advantage of recent scientific discoveries connected with agriculture; and what plans, in particular, have been made by this council to provide for an adequate regional service.
Mr. HudsonPending the establishment of a National Advisory Service, with which it will be closely associated, the recently reconstituted Agricultural Improvement Council will make use of the existing machinery for ensuring that promising results of scientific research are incorporated into farming practice as rapidly as possible. The main channels through which such knowledge is disseminated are the Ministry's Technical Development Committee, Technical Development Sub-Committees and technical staffs of County War Agricultural Executive Committees and the Provincial Advisory Service; and progressive farmers play an invaluable part in furthering the adoption by the industry generally of up-to-date methods of farming.