The Department of Agricultural Economics was part of the Faculty of Economic and Social Studies. It was a small department, whose research was originally linked to Ministry of Agriculture contracts.
Subjects include: a 1970 UGC report which proposed downgrading the Manchester department; Ministry of Agriculture support for the department; arrangement in the department following the retirement of Professor Watkin Thomas in 1980; and a planned Centre for Development Studies (1982).
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