Section 4
SEC. 4. The PVTA is hereby granted authority to construct, manage and operate for experimental and demonstration purposes curing barns using fuel substitutes like solar heat to construct, acquire or establish curing centers for lease or sale to private sectors; to encourage the organization of farmers' associations, cooperatives or corporations that may desire to engage in the business of curing Virginia leaf tobacco using new methods or techniques; and to provide such associations, cooperatives or corporations with financial assistance, through the banking system under the Integrated Agricultural Financing Program for the Ilocos Region, for the construction or acquisition, operation and maintenance and improvement or enlargement of such curing system.