P.R. Laws tit. 5, § 1555
In the preparation, approval and implementation of programs under this chapter there shall be taken into consideration the following objectives:
(a) To promote the integral development of each farm or agricultural unit, giving preference to the work purely connected with farm cattle production which may develop or improve the infrastructure of our agriculture, such as the leveling and drainage of lands, deep wells, pathways in farms, etc., and to the programs that may reduce the farm cattle production costs or that provide protection thereto.
(b) To encourage the greatest production possible in accordance with the productive capacity of the lands and the means to dispose of the production.
(c) To encourage the greatest consumption of local farm cattle products, including their availability to the consumers at fair prices.
(d) To place the farmers and entities who engage in farm cattle production in the best possible competitive position.
(e) To place the farmers and entities who engage in farm cattle production on a stable economic basis.
(f) To bring to farmers and entities who engage in the farm cattle production the greatest possible welfare in harmony with the general level of development and of the aspirations prevailing in the country.
(g) To promote the use of land for agricultural purposes by practices tending to greater production and to the conservation of the soil and of the waters in harmony with the recommendations of the Soil Conservation Districts of Puerto Rico.
History —June 21, 1971, No. 53, p. 164, § 5, eff. July 1, 1971.