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Committee presses Agriculture Department to publish public registry of farmers; requests AgroPerfil details in five days
Summary
The House Commission on Agriculture reviewed H.B. 286, a proposal to create a public digital registry of Puerto Rican farmers and their products; the Department of Agriculture said it already maintains an internal AgroPerfil system but needs funds, consent protocols and time to publish a public marketplace.
The House Commission on Agriculture reviewed H.B. 286, a proposal to create a public digital registry of Puerto Rican farmers ("Registro Digital Pfablico de Agricultores Bonafide") and the products they harvest.
The bill would direct the Department of Agriculture to develop, implement and operate an online, mobile‑friendly registry intended to allow citizens and local buyers to search for farmers by product and municipality and contact them directly. Jean Carlos Hurtado Rivera, the department's information systems manager, read the department's written position to the committee and described the existing AgroPerfil platform as the foundation for the registry.
Department view: platform exists but…
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