QuestionsQuestions (Act No. 3910)
The main purpose of Act No. 3910 is to establish, equip, maintain, and operate an economic garden in Camp Eldridge, Los Baños, Laguna to improve, demonstrate, propagate, and promote the large-scale raising of economic plants in the Philippine Islands.
The Director of Plant Industry, with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, is authorized to utilize and disburse any unexpended balance from the Bureau of Plant Industry appropriation for the economic garden.
The economic garden may raise all known economic plants existing or now being raised in the Philippines, as well as plants of foreign origin that may be grown profitably in the country.
Funds may be used for salaries, wages, traveling expenses of personnel, construction, maintenance and repair of buildings and structures, purchase of seeds, planting materials, work animals, farm implements, chemicals, apparatus, other necessary equipment and supplies, and other expenses necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act.
The Department Head has the authority to appoint and employ qualified and competent personnel to manage or direct the economic garden, notwithstanding the provisions of Act No. 2589, as amended, which may have contrary provisions regarding appointments.
Seeds, planting materials, and other produce from the economic garden may be sold at nominal cost or distributed free for relief purposes in areas devastated by typhoons, floods, or similar causes.
The Director of Plant Industry has immediate direction and administration of the economic garden, subject to the general executive control and supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
The Director of Plant Industry, with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, shall make and prescribe all necessary rules and regulations governing the maintenance, operation, and administration of the economic garden.
Rules and regulations must be made in accordance with the provisions of Act No. 3443, as amended by Act No. 3624.
Act No. 3910 took effect upon its approval on November 20, 1931.