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To improve the level of environmental management and to assist producers in developing or improving on-farm wildlife habitats

To stimulate the generation, adaptation and dissemination of scientific and technological knowledge and products that contribute to the sustainable (social, economic and environmental) development of the competitiveness of the various actors involved in the agricultural sector

To provide support for the contracting of technical advisory services to improve the environmental situation

Protection, maintenance and improvement of plant and animal health and surveillance of the health status of plants and animals and the sanitary condition of plant and animal products, by-products and derivatives which may cause or carry diseases that could impair this resource

To foster research, control and monitoring of water resources so as to prevent any deterioration and minimize the effects of exploitation by preserving these resources in quantitative and qualitative terms

To protect the country's agricultural heritage from economic and quarantine pests, to protect human health and biodiversity, and to comply with phytosanitary regulations governing domestic and international marketing of plants

To provide training and advisory activities aimed at the agricultural sector and focusing on plant and animal husbandry, forestry, the environment, agricultural mechanization, soil and water technology

To develop field activities and projects in several of the country's watersheds in order to ensure sustainable use of natural, social and economic resources through an integrated and participatory approach

To provide economic compensation for land-owning farmers growing multi-purpose forest plantations in close combination with annual or perennial crops and/or animal husbandry, as an effective means of maintaining, rehabilitating and developing forest ecosystems

To support ecological agriculture and the establishment of the elements of the territorial system of landscape ecological stability, to ensure treatment of grass strips, landscape maintenance, revitalization of brooks and streams and non-productive function of fish ponds