The Agricultural Development and Advisory Service, now trading as ADAS
Agricultural Development and Advisory Service. UK government organisation that providing veterinary and agricultural advice to farmers. Greatly reduced in size during the Thatcher Government.
Formerly an Executive Agency of MAFF and the Welsh Office, ADAS (previously known as the Agricultural Development Advisory Service) was privatised on 1 April 1997. It provides technical, strategic and business consultancy to all land based industries, especially food production, processing and retailing, land management, waste disposal and energy. The Farming and Rural Conservation Agency (FRCA) now carries out those functions of ADAS which were not considered suitable for privatisation.
Agricultural Development and Advisory Service. This was a government organisation that provided cheap veterinary and agricultural advice to farmers. The Thatcher Government decided that the farmers should pay higher prices and that it should be privatised if possible. As a result it was decreased in size dramatically.