§ 32. Sir Michael McNair-WilsonTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many agricultural research centres are funded by his Ministry.
§ Mr. MacGregorAgricultural research is commissioned within my Department at 11 experimental husbandry farms, eight experimental horticultural stations, the farm building development centre, the field drainage experimental unit and the feed evaluation unit plus the ADAS central science laboratories and the central veterinary laboratories. My Department also commissions agricultural research externally with the eight institutes of the Agricultural and Food Research Council plus short-term contracts with a large number of universities, colleages, polytechnics and other establishments.