P.R. Laws tit. 5, § 318a
In accordance with the provisions of § 318 of this title the Program shall consist of economic aids, technical assistance, payment of incentives and subsidies, rendering of services and other measures to help the coffee zone industry to carry out the following phases, without it being construed as a limitation to the extension of the Program:
(a) Plantings of coffee plantations on suitable lands, with varieties recommended by the Agricultural Experiment Station.
(b) Improvement of coffee plantations whose agronomical condition makes them susceptible to improvements that increase their yield and which are planted in the most suitable lands.
(c) Diversification of the coffee lands which are not used for the phases described in subsections (a) and (b) of this section. The lands which are not needed for the production of coffee may be devoted to diversified uses such as pasture lands, foodstuffs, fruits, ornamental plants, forests, establishment of poultry farms and/or swine or for any other agricultural cattle enterprise.
(d) Special incentives to industries which manufacture products of the coffee zone.
(e) Establishment of pilot farms in the coffee zone where the most advanced techniques in agricultural cattle development are used or practiced which serve as models to coffee growers. For these purposes the Department of Agriculture may operate them on its own, through contract with other private agricultural agencies, or may contract with farmers or other private agricultural entities.
(f) Economic and technical assistance for the improvement of the beneficiary, and for the manufacturing, marketing and promotion of coffee consumption.
(g) Testing, adaptation and purchase of agricultural equipment and machinery which facilitate and/or improve any of the phases or practices above mentioned.
History —Dec. 8, 1966, No. 6, p. 37, § 2; June 2, 1967, No. 98, p. 321, § 2; May 6, 1968, No. 34, p. 52; June 25, 1969, No. 68, p. 210, § 1, eff. July 1, 1969.