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Committee signals support for S.190 to expand —Manos para el Campo' program; department urges clarifications and operational recommendations
Summary
The House Agriculture Committee heard Sept. 19 from Department of Agriculture officials on Senate Project S.190 to expand the —Manos para el Campo' program beyond coffee harvests, and signaled a favorable committee report subject to clarifications and operational assurances.
At a Sept. 19 House Agriculture Committee hearing, agency officials reviewed Senate Project S.190, which would amend Law 38 of 2011 (the —Manos para el Campo' statute) to expand the law's application beyond coffee harvests to other agricultural tasks and activities across Puerto Rico.
Irvin Rodríguez Torres, subsecretary of agriculture, and Sheila Báez Carrif3n, legal advisor, presented the Department of Agriculture's written position and explained operational issues the agency recommends the commission address. The testimony supported the policy goal of expanding labor options for agriculture while urging changes to prevent unintended interference with existing incentive programs and to ensure administrative capacity.
The department highlighted three labor sources discussed in the hearing: (1) local workers; (2) confined individuals supplied by the Department of…
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