2016 Mississippi Code
Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals
Chapter 1 - Agriculture and Commerce Department; Council on Agriculture
Mississippi Marketing of Agricultural Products and Industry Program Act of 1988 (§§ 69-1-101 - 69-1-117)
§ 69-1-103. Creation of "Marketing of Agricultural Products and Industry Program" and "Marketing of Agricultural Products and Industry Council"; purpose

There is hereby created within the Department of Agriculture and Commerce the Mississippi Marketing of Agricultural Products and Industry Program, to be administered by the Mississippi Marketing of Agricultural Products and Industry Council, hereinafter referred to as "the council," for the purposes of stimulating the development of new markets for Mississippi Agricultural Products and Industry, and further encouraging the establishment, particularly in the rural areas and smaller communities of Mississippi, of industrial operations processing agricultural products to an end-usage stage, ready for sale to the markets of the nation and the world.