Taisto Tähkämaa (born 11 December 1924)[1] is a Finnish Centre Party politician who served at the Parliament and held various cabinet posts, including minister of defense and minister of agriculture and forestry in the 1970s and 1980s.
[4] He was a member of the Centre Party and served as its vice chair between 1980 and 1984.
[2] Tähkämaa was appointed minister of defense on 15 May 1977 to the second cabinet of Kalevi Sorsa, and his tenure ended on 25 May 1979.
[2] Next day he was named as the minister of agriculture and forestry and served in the second cabinet of Mauno Koivisto until 18 February 1982.
[2] Tähkämaa continued to hold the same post in the third cabinet of Kalevi Sorsa from 19 February 1982 to 5 May 1983.