Section 2
SEC. 2. The money authorized to be utilized under this Act or any fund that may hereafter be available for the purposes herein shall be expended for salaries, wages and traveling expenses of the necessary personnel; for the construction, maintenance and repair of office and laboratory buildings, bodegas, fences and other necessary structures; for the purchase of seeds and planting materials, work animals, farm implements, chemicals, apparatus and other necessary equipments and supplies; and for defraying all such other expenses as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act: Provided, That the Department Head shall have authority to appoint and employ such personnel as may be considered qualified and competent to manage or direct the economic garden herein established, the provisions of Act Numbered Twenty-five hundred and eighty-nine, as amended, to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, further, That, whenever available, seeds, planting materials and other produce derived from the plants raised in the economic garden herein established may be sold at nominal cost, or distributed free for purposes of relief in devastated areas on account of typhoons, floods or other similar causes.