The Ministry of Agriculture and Fishing of France is the governmental body charged with regulation

Regulation

Regulation is administrative legislation that constitutes or constrains rights and allocates responsibilities. It can be distinguished from primary legislation on the one hand and judge-made law on the other...

 and policy, for agriculture

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

, fisheries, forestry

Forestry

Forestry is the interdisciplinary profession embracing the science, art, and craft of creating, managing, using, and conserving forests and associated resources in a sustainable manner to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human benefit. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands...

 and food

Food

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals...

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The department is headquartered in Hotel Villeroy, at No. 78 Rue de Varenne in the 7th arrondissement of Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, adjacent to Hotel Matignon

Hôtel Matignon

The Hôtel Matignon is the official residence of the Prime Minister of France. It is located in the VIIe arrondissement of Paris, France.The address of Hotel Matignon is 57 rue de Varenne, Paris, France.-History:...

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Ministers

The Minister of Agriculture, Food, Fishing and Rural Affairs is a cabinet member

French government ministers

The Cabinet of France is a body of top administration members of the Prime Minister's Cabinet. In French, the word gouvernement generally refers to the "Administration", but in a narrower sense to the Cabinet.The Council is responsible to the French National Assembly...

 in the Government of France

Government of France

The government of the French Republic is a semi-presidential system determined by the French Constitution of the fifth Republic. The nation declares itself to be an "indivisible, secular, democratic, and social Republic"...

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• Alexandre Goüin 1 March 1840 - 29 October 1840
• Paul Devès 14 November 1881 - 30 January 1882
• François de Mahy 30 January 1882 - 21 February 1883
• Jules Méline
  Jules Méline
  Félix Jules Méline was a French statesman, prime minister from 1896 to 1898.-Biography:Méline was born at Remiremont. Having taken up law as his profession, he was chosen a deputy in 1872, and in 1879 he was for a short time under-secretary to the minister of the interior...
  
   21 February 1883 - 6 April 1885
• Hervé Mangon 6 April 1885 - 9 November 1885
• Pierre Gomot 9 November 1885 - 7 January 1886
• Jules Develle
  Jules Develle
  Jules Develle was a French politician. He vwas Minister of Justice and Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1893....
  
   7 January 1886 - 30 May 1887
• François Barbe 30 May 1887 - 12 December 1887
• Jules Viette 12 December 1887 - 22 February 1889
• Léopold Faye 22 February 1889 - 17 March 1890
• Jules Develle
  Jules Develle
  Jules Develle was a French politician. He vwas Minister of Justice and Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1893....
  
   17 March 1890 - 11 January 1893
• Albert Viger 11 January 1893 - 26 January 1895
• Antoine Gadaud 26 January 1895 - 1 November 1895
• Albert Viger 1 November 1895 - 29 April 1896
• Jules Méline
  Jules Méline
  Félix Jules Méline was a French statesman, prime minister from 1896 to 1898.-Biography:Méline was born at Remiremont. Having taken up law as his profession, he was chosen a deputy in 1872, and in 1879 he was for a short time under-secretary to the minister of the interior...
  
   29 April 1896 - 28 June 1898
• Albert Viger 28 June 1898 - 22 June 1899
• Jean Dupuy
  Jean Dupuy (politician)
  Jean Dupuy - 31 December 1919, Paris) was a French politician and media owner.-Life:A huissier by profession, he practised in Paris and quickly became interested in the press and in politics, taking over leadership of Le Petit Parisien on the death of Paul Piégut in 1888...
  
   22 June 1899 - 7 June 1902
• Léon Mougeot 7 June 1902 - 24 January 1905
• Joseph Ruau 24 January 1905 - 3 November 1910
• Maurice Raynaud
  Maurice Raynaud
  A. G. Maurice Raynaud , is the French doctor who discovered Raynaud's Disease, a rare vasopastic disorder which contracts blood vessels in extremities and is the "R" in the CREST syndrome acronym, in the late 19th century.-Life and career :...
  
   3 November 1910 - 2 March 1911
• Jules Pams 2 March 1911 - 17 January 1913
• Fernand David
  Fernand David
  Fernand David was the French Minister of Agriculture from 21 January 1913 to 22 March 1913.-References:...
  
   21 January 1913 - 22 March 1913
• Étienne Clémentel  22 March 1913 - 9 December 1913
• Maurice Raynaud
  Maurice Raynaud
  A. G. Maurice Raynaud , is the French doctor who discovered Raynaud's Disease, a rare vasopastic disorder which contracts blood vessels in extremities and is the "R" in the CREST syndrome acronym, in the late 19th century.-Life and career :...
  
   9 December 1913 - 9 June 1914
• Adrien Dariac 9 June 1914 - 13 June 1914
• Fernand David
  Fernand David
  Fernand David was the French Minister of Agriculture from 21 January 1913 to 22 March 1913.-References:...
  
   13 June 1914 - 29 October 1915
• Jules Méline
  Jules Méline
  Félix Jules Méline was a French statesman, prime minister from 1896 to 1898.-Biography:Méline was born at Remiremont. Having taken up law as his profession, he was chosen a deputy in 1872, and in 1879 he was for a short time under-secretary to the minister of the interior...
  
   29 October 1915 - 12 December 1916
• Étienne Clémentel 12 December 1916 - 20 March 1917
• Fernand David
  Fernand David
  Fernand David was the French Minister of Agriculture from 21 January 1913 to 22 March 1913.-References:...
  
   20 March 1917 - 16 November 1917
• Victor Boret 16 November 1917 - 20 July 1919
• Joseph Noullens 20 July 1919 - 20 January 1920
• Joseph Ricard 20 January 1920 - 16 January 1921
• Edmond Lefebvre du Prey
  Edmond Lefebvre du Prey
  Edmond Lefebvre du Prey was a French politician of the Third Republic....
  
   16 January 1921 - 15 January 1922
• Henry Chéron 15 January 1922 - 29 March 1924
• Joseph Capus 29 March 1924 - 14 June 1924
• Henri Queuille
  Henri Queuille
  Henri Queuille was a French Radical politician prominent in the Third and Fourth Republics. After World War II, he served three times as Prime Minister.He was the son of a noblewoman.-First ministry :...
  
   14 June 1924 - 17 April 1925
• Jean Durand 17 April 1925 - 10 April 1926
• François Binet 10 April 1926 - 19 July 1926
• Henri Queuille
  Henri Queuille
  Henri Queuille was a French Radical politician prominent in the Third and Fourth Republics. After World War II, he served three times as Prime Minister.He was the son of a noblewoman.-First ministry :...
  
   19 July 1926 - 11 November 1928
• Jean Hennessy
  Jean Hennessy
  Jean Patrick Hennessy was a French politician.Hennessy was born at Cherves-Richemont in the Charente département, son of Maurice Hennessy and his wife Jeanne, née Foussat. His very wealthy family, of Irish origin, were the proprietors of the Hennessy cognac business, now part of LVMH...
  
   11 November 1928 - 21 February 1930
• Henri Queuille
  Henri Queuille
  Henri Queuille was a French Radical politician prominent in the Third and Fourth Republics. After World War II, he served three times as Prime Minister.He was the son of a noblewoman.-First ministry :...
  
   21 February 1930 - 2 March 1930
• Fernand David
  Fernand David
  Fernand David was the French Minister of Agriculture from 21 January 1913 to 22 March 1913.-References:...
  
   2 March 1930 - 13 December 1930
• Victor Boret 13 December 1930 - 27 January 1931
• André Tardieu
  André Tardieu
  André Pierre Gabriel Amédée Tardieu was three times Prime Minister of France and a dominant figure of French political life in 1929-1932.-Biography:...
  
   27 January 1931 - 14 January 1932
• Achille Armand Fould 14 January 1932 - 20 February 1932
• Claude Chauveau 20 February 1932 - 3 June 1932
• Abel Gardey
  Abel Gardey
  Abel Gardey was a French politician. In 1933, he has been the French Minister of Budget....
  
   3 June 1932 - 18 December 1932
• Henri Queuille
  Henri Queuille
  Henri Queuille was a French Radical politician prominent in the Third and Fourth Republics. After World War II, he served three times as Prime Minister.He was the son of a noblewoman.-First ministry :...
  
   18 December 1932 - 8 November 1934
• Émile Casset  8 November 1934 - 1 June 1935
• Paul Jacquier
  Paul Jacquier
  Paul Jacquier was a French senator.-Positions:*MP of Haute-Savoie from 1909 to 1919 and from 1924 to 1935*Senator of Haute-Savoie from 1935 to 1940*Undersecretary of State for Fine Arts on Dec...
  
   1 June 1935 - 7 June 1935
• Pierre Cathala 7 June 1935 - 24 January 1936
• Paul Thellier 24 January 1936 - 4 June 1936
• Georges Monnet
  Georges Monnet
  Not to be confused with the French wartime foreign minister Georges BonnetGeorges Monnet was a prominent socialist politician in 1930s France and a member of Paul Reynaud's war cabinet as Minister of Blockade. Preceding that, he was Minister of Agriculture in Léon Blum's government...
  
   4 June 1936 - 18 January 1938
• Fernand Chapsal 18 January 1938 - 13 March 1938
• Georges Monnet
  Georges Monnet
  Not to be confused with the French wartime foreign minister Georges BonnetGeorges Monnet was a prominent socialist politician in 1930s France and a member of Paul Reynaud's war cabinet as Minister of Blockade. Preceding that, he was Minister of Agriculture in Léon Blum's government...
  
   13 March 1938 - 10 April 1938
• Henri Queuille
  Henri Queuille
  Henri Queuille was a French Radical politician prominent in the Third and Fourth Republics. After World War II, he served three times as Prime Minister.He was the son of a noblewoman.-First ministry :...
  
   10 April 1938 - 21 March 1940
• Paul Thellier 21 March 1940 - 16 June 1940
• Albert Chichery 16 June 1940 - 12 July 1940
• Pierre Caziot 12 July 1940 - 18 April 1942
• Jacques Le Roy Ladurie 18 April 1942 - 11 September 1942
• Max Bonnafous 11 September 1942 - 6 January 1944
• Pierre Cathala ]6 January 1944 - 20 August 1944
• François Tanguy-Prigent
  François Tanguy-Prigent
  François Tanguy-Prigent was a French politician and resistance fighter. ....
  
   4 September 1944 - 22 October 1947
• Marcel Roclore 22 October 1947 - 24 November 1947
• Pierre Pflimlin
  Pierre Pflimlin
  Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin was a French Christian democratic politician who served as the penultimate Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle during the crisis of that year.-Life:...
  
   24 November 1947 - 2 December 1949
• Gabriel Valay 2 December 1949 - 3 July 1950
• Pierre Pflimlin
  Pierre Pflimlin
  Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin was a French Christian democratic politician who served as the penultimate Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle during the crisis of that year.-Life:...
  
   3 July 1950 - 11 August 1951
• Paul Antier 11 August 1951 - 21 November 1951
• Camille Laurens
  Camille Laurens
  Camille Laurens is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 2000, for Dans ces bras-là.-References:...
  
   21 November 1951 - 28 June 1953
• Roger Houdet 28 June 1953 - 23 February 1955
• Jean Sourbet 23 February 1955 - 1 February 1956
• Roland Boscary-Monsservin 6 November 1957 - 9 June 1958
• Roger Houdet  9 June 1958 - 27 May 1959
• Henri Rochereau
  Henri Rochereau
  Henri Rochereau was a French politician and European Commissioner.Henri was the son of Victor Rochereau, a National Assembly of France député for the Vendée department...
  
    27 May 1959 - 24 August 1961
• Edgard Pisani
  Edgard Pisani
  Edgard Pisani was a French politician. He was born in Tunis and his parents were Maltese immigrants. He spent his childhood in Tunisia and later studied in Paris. Pisani holds a "licence de lettres" from La Sorbonne. His second marriage was with the daughter of André Le Troquer.He held positions...
  
    24 August 1961 - 8 January 1966
• Edgar Faure
  Edgar Faure
  Edgar Faure was a French politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist.-Career:Faure was born in Béziers, Languedoc-Roussillon. He trained as a lawyer in Paris and became a member of the Bar at 27, the youngest lawyer in France to do so at the time...
  
   8 January 1966 - 10 July 1968
• Robert Boulin
  Robert Boulin
  Robert Boulin was a French politician who served as Minister of Labour in the French Cabinet and was at the centre of a major real-estate scandal that ended only with his death in mysterious circumstances...
  
   10 July 1968 - 16 June 1969
• Jacques Duhamel 16 June 1969 - 8 January 1971
• Michel Cointat 8 January 1971 - 7 July 1972
• Jacques Chirac
  Jacques Chirac
  Jacques René Chirac is a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. He previously served as Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988 , and as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.After completing his studies of the DEA's degree at the...
  
   7 July 1972 - 1 March 1974
• Raymond Marcellin
  Raymond Marcellin
  Raymond Marcellin was a French politician.- Biography :The son of a banker, he studied law at the University of Strasbourg and the University of Paris. He worked as a lawyer for three years, before being called into the army in September 1939. He was captured by the Wehrmacht, but managed to...
  
   1 March 1974 - 28 May 1974
• Christian Bonnet 28 May 1974 - 30 March 1977
• Pierre Méhaignerie
  Pierre Méhaignerie
  Pierre Méhaignerie is a French politician. He is presently deputy of the Ille-et-Vilaine's 5th constituency and mayor of Vitré...
  
   30 March 1977 - 22 May 1981
• Edith Cresson
  Édith Cresson
  Édith Cresson is a French politician. She was the first and so far only woman to have held the office of Prime Minister of France.- French Prime Minister :Cresson was appointed to the prime ministerial post by President François Mitterrand on 15 May 1991...
  
   22 May 1981 - 22 March 1983
• Michel Rocard
  Michel Rocard
  Michel Rocard is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party . He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991, during which he created the Revenu minimum d'insertion , a social minimum welfare program for indigents, and led the Matignon Accords regarding the status...
  
   22 March 1983 - 4 April 1985
• Henri Nallet
  Henri Nallet
  Henri Nallet is a French politician. He is a member of the Socialist Party.He was twice Minister of Agriculture between 1985 and 1986, and between 1988 and 1990. He also was the Minister of Justice between 1990 and 1992.-References:...
  
   4 April 1985 - 20 March 1986
• François Guillaume
  François Guillaume
  François Guillaume is a French politician. He was a member of the Rally for the Republic and after then a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. Between 1979 and 1986, he was the president of the Fédération Nationale des Syndicats d'Exploitants d'Agricoles.He was Minister of Agriculture...
  
   20 March 1986 - 12 May 1988
• Henri Nallet
  Henri Nallet
  Henri Nallet is a French politician. He is a member of the Socialist Party.He was twice Minister of Agriculture between 1985 and 1986, and between 1988 and 1990. He also was the Minister of Justice between 1990 and 1992.-References:...
  
   12 May 1988 - 2 October 1990
• Louis Mermaz
  Louis Mermaz
  Louis Mermaz is a French politician. He became an ally of François Mitterrand in the late 1950s and in 1971 became a member of Mitterrand's staff in the French Socialist Party. From 1981 to 1986, he was president of the French National Assembly. He served as Minister of Agriculture from 1990 to...
  
   2 October 1990 - 2 October 1992
• Jean-Pierre Soisson
  Jean-Pierre Soisson
  Jean-Pierre Soisson is a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement who is a deputy in the National Assembly of France for the first district of Yonne....
  
   2 October 1992 - 29 March 1993
• Jean Puech
  Jean Puech
  Jean Puech is a French politician. He was first a member of the Republican Party before joining the Union for a Popular Movement....
  
   29 March 1993 - 18 May 1995
• Philippe Vasseur
  Philippe Vasseur
  Philippe Vasseur is a French politician.Vasseur began his career as a journalist on newspapers and TV. From 1986 to 1999, he was a French Member of Parliament, and, from 1995 to 1997, the French Minister of Agriculture....
  
    18 May 1995 - 4 June 1997
• Louis Le Pensec
  Louis Le Pensec
  Louis Le Pensec is a French politician. He is a member of the Socialist Party. Between 1973 and 1997, he was a member of the Parliament.Since 27 September 1998, he is a Senator of Finistère....
  
   4 June 1997 - 20 October 1998
• Jean Glavany
  Jean Glavany
  Jean Glavany is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party and former Minister.From 1981 to 1988, he was head of cabinet of President François Mitterrand . He was then Minister of Agriculture in the Plural Left government of Lionel Jospin...
  
   20 October 1998 - 25 February 2002
• François Patriat
  François Patriat
  François Patriat is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Côte-d'Or department. He is a member of the Socialist Party.-References:*...
  
   25 February 2002 - 7 May 2002
• Hervé Gaymard
  Hervé Gaymard
  Hervé Gaymard is a French politician and a member of UMP conservative party. He served as the country's Minister of Finances from 30 November 2004 until his resignation on 25 February 2005....
  
   7 May 2002 - 31 March 2004
• Hervé Gaymard
  Hervé Gaymard
  Hervé Gaymard is a French politician and a member of UMP conservative party. He served as the country's Minister of Finances from 30 November 2004 until his resignation on 25 February 2005....
  
   31 March 2004 - 29 November 2004
• Dominique Bussereau
  Dominique Bussereau
  Dominique Bussereau is a French politician, was Secretary of State for Transport within the government of François Fillon...
  
   29 November 2004 - 15 May 2007
• Christine Lagarde
  Christine Lagarde
  Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French lawyer and the managing director of the International Monetary Fund since July 5, 2011...
  
   18 May 2007 - June 2007
• Michel Barnier
  Michel Barnier
  Michel Barnier is a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement and Vice President of the European People's Party . He is the current European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services...
  
   19 June 2007 - 22 June 2009
• Bruno Le Maire
  Bruno Le Maire
  Bruno Le Maire is the French Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fishing.-Biography:Bruno Le Maire was born on 15 April 1969 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration....
  
  23 June 2009 - present

External links

• Ministry of Agriculture