Section 1
SECTION 1. Section 2 of Presidential Decree No. 681 is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. POLICY/PURPOSE.—The commitment of the farmers to actively participate in the efforts to improve methods and develop entrepreneurial capabilities in the areas of resource management, farming, fishing, forestry, agro-industrial production, processing, marketing, drainage, rural waterworks and land reclamation for agricultural production is vital in the process of increasing food production and hastening rural development. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State to pursue and foster, in an orderly and expeditious manner, the attainment of this objective. For this purpose, the FSDC shall promote the organization of and assist associations and other rural-based entities which are willing to pursue diligently the above purpose. To become effectively established and operationally stable, the associations and other rural-based entities shall be given every tenable support and assistance by the national government, its instrumentalities and agencies to the fullest extent of which they are capable. Being by their nature substantially self-regulating and Congress, having by the enactment of this Decree substantially covered all phases of their organization and operation requiring or justifying regulation, and in order to further encourage and promote their development, they should be subject to minimal regulation by all administrative agencies."