P.R. Laws tit. 5, § 942
The main purpose of the farm bureaus shall be to organize the small landholders and peasants; to provide for them contact services with the programs of other agricultural agencies, federal or Commonwealth, operating in the Commonwealth; to help them in obtaining the best varieties of plants and fruits, supplies and farm equipment, and to orient them within the powers and objectives of the Department of Agriculture, in the scientific use of the production and marketing facilities of farm products, and of any other service of general usefulness to the farmers as may further the promotion and welfare of agriculture and of those who depend on agriculture for their support. Farm bureaus shall have no speculative purposes whatsoever, and shall be organized in accordance with the provisions of Act No. 22 of the Legislature of Puerto Rico entitled “An Act to incorporate associations not for pecuniary profit”, approved March 9, 1911, and they are hereby authorized to solicit the purchase and supply of farm products.
History —Apr. 30, 1951, No. 167, p. 400, § 3.