And the agricultural ministries were too afraid of losing certain obligatory guarantees of purchases from the state and guarantees about land utilization, and so on.

The agricultural ministries were too hesitant to leave agriculture to the market.

Unfortunately it seems that it has been the agricultural ministry which has won the debate, and Britain is merely tinkering with the problem.

Ciba-Geigy, for example, was recently approached by the agricultural ministry of a rice-growing sub-Saharan African country.

One, widely considered a disappointment, was to merge agricultural ministries into a farming "superagency" called Gosagroprom.

An agricultural ministry was also included in the Northern Ireland Executive briefly established in 1974.

Ohmsen was immediately dismissed without notice from his position in the agricultural ministry for insulting the Minister-President.

Similarly, both agricultural ministries agreed on quotas for competing rice and potato production.

Mexico's agricultural ministry provided assistance for farmers to replant lost crops.