Agricultural development policies, including a planned programme designed to promote modernization and development of agricultural practices with the purpose of improving national living conditions;
Development administration pertaining to agriculture: organizational arrangements to implement and coordinate development programmes, which include such activities as project identification, promotion for the financing of agricultural development projects, creation of development areas with favourable terms offered for the establishment of agricultural enterprises, technical and managerial counselling, etc.;
Rural development planning, policies, programmes;
International cooperation for development;
development aid, food aid;
Technology tranfer, bringing about technological change, evolution, progress, and involving technological development, diffusion of innovations and technological know-how and adaptation of technology at the national or international level;
promotion of technical assistance programmes.