Law No. 8.562 creating the State Agency of Agricultural and Livestock Research and Rural Extension of Maranhão (AGERP/MA). Country/Territory Brazil Territorial subdivision Maranhão Document type Legislation Date 2006 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Agricultural & rural development, Livestock Keyword Institution Agricultural development Agro-forestry Agricultural extension Policy/planning Capacity building Sustainable use Animal health Animal production Geographical area Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, South America, South Atlantic Entry into force notes This Law enters into force on the day of its publication. Abstract This Law, consisting of 10 articles, creates the State Agency of Agricultural and Livestock Research and Rural Extension of Maranhão (AGERP/MA). It establishes composition, duties and responsibilities of the above mentioned Agency, entitled to perform the following activities: planning, coordinating, controlling and executing in a decentralized manner the state policy of research and development, technical assistance and rural extension, generating, adapting and adopting mechanisms for the transfer and diffusion of appropriate scientific and technological knowledge and contextualized for the production, processing and marketing segments, linked to the productive chains and chains of the agricultural, livestock, agroforestry and fishing sectors of the State of Maranhão. Full text Portuguese Website legislacao.al.ma.gov.br