P.R. Laws tit. 5, § 1775
Through a process of comprehensive planning, the Planning Board and the Department of Agriculture, in coordination and collaboration with the Asociación de Agricultores de Maunabo and the Agricultural Sciences College of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, shall prepare and implement a plan for the agricultural development of the reserve.
This comprehensive development plan shall adopt the following criteria:
(1) Establish the specific survey of boundaries of the geographic area that shall be designated for agricultural use.
(2) Establish the directive and programmatic norms needed to achieve the development of the reserve in accordance with the purposes consigned in this chapter.
(3) Develop initiatives, subsidies and any type of aid available to the Department of Agriculture which could be used for the agricultural development of this reserve.
(4) Provide incentives, subsidies and any type of aid available to the Department of Agriculture which could be used for the agricultural development of this reserve.
(5) Integrate the organizations of the private sector that gather the various marketing channels, such as supermarkets, food distributors, and others, with the purpose of creating guarantees for marketing agricultural products.
(6) Stimulate the reserve and area farmers so they may foster and participate in the ordinance of the agricultural sectors or enterprises in accordance with the provisions of §§ 3051—3061 of this title.
(7) Integrate organizations of farmers and private citizens who have a special interest in the agricultural preservation of the reserve in the process of designing the agricultural development plan, as well as to consult the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture about the technical aspects thereof.
(8) Coordinate with the Department of the Treasury the granting of tax benefits to the agricultural projects that are to be developed in the agricultural reserve area, pursuant to the provisions of §§ 10401 et seq. of Title 13, known as the “Puerto Rico Agricultural Tax Incentives Act”.
(9) Address and give priority approval to the applications for the development of agricultural irrigation and drainage infrastructure, pursuant to the criteria established in the Agricultural Infrastructure Development Program, created by Joint Resolution No. 597 of December 1, 1995, and whose purpose is to carry out improvements and extensions to the infrastructure of the existing irrigation system.
(10) Integrate the Agricultural Sciences College of the University of Puerto Rico in the development and use of advanced technology, which may serve as a model for other zones of the Island.
History —Jan. 23, 2006, No. 18, § 5.