This Decree-Law has been enacted to ensure development of villages, improvement of agriculture and animal husbandry within the frame of development plans and programs, and to render agricultural, social and economic public services with necessary infrastructure. The functions of the Ministry are: develop rural areas, improve agriculture, animal husbandry and fisheries products; accomplish research, study, plans, programs and projects for production, consumption and input needs and for development of land, water, plant, livestock and similar natural resources; provide, procure and distribute agricultural loans and other inputs and render services on agricultural support policies; provide assistance to farmers who are affected from natural disasters; establish and operate necessary controlling system and agencies to ensure and arrange quality and standardised production, processing, preservation, and marketing of food and other agricultural and livestock products, and provide assistance to farmers organizations; meet road, water, sewage, electricity and settlement requirements of rural areas; develop policies to enable them to acquire economic and social facilities, healthy and modern settlement structures; ensure land integration and accomplish related research, inventory plans and projects; make necessary efforts to meet adequate nutritional requirements and consumption demands of the population, and take necessary measures to increase productivity at vegetable and livestock production, and provide production diversity; conduct research on agriculture and animal husbandry. Establish necessary stations, laboratories and similar facilities for improving, demonstrating, production, and product processing; accomplish agricultural training and education activities; perform food controlling, accomplish preparation and implementation of Turkish Food Codex; perform agricultural combating activities, render inspection and licensing procedures; combat with animal diseases and with animal diseases that could infect humans, and render corresponding production, supervision and licensing services; accomplish production, inspection and licensing of other agricultural products and fisheries products.