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ORGANISED agricultural research in Great Britain is developing along lines similar to a modern industry. The chief research centres confine their activities to one or a few aspects of agriculture, and in this respect may be compared to factory shops, in each of which the operatives concentrate on some particular stage of production and usually know little of the processes carried out in other shops. This highly specialised type of organisation is one of the most economical that has yet been devised, but its success depends largely on the existence of a central executive body, capable of ensuring the closest co-operation and co-ordination between the different departments. In recent years, the need for an analogous executive body to co-ordinate agricultural research in Great Britain has become increasingly apparent and has been accentuated by the present tendency to regard agricultural development as one of the most important parts of national policy. When Government not only subsidises agricultural research but also determines agricultural policy, its obvious duty is to see that the money spent on research is used to the best advantage for the furtherance of its policy.
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Co-ordinating Agricultural Research. Nature 135, 45–46 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135045a0
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