Implementing rules and regulations pursuant to Republic Act 8435 An Act Prescribing Urgent Related Measures to Modernize the Agriculture and Fisheries Sectors of the Country in order to Enhance their Profitability, and Prepare Said Sectors for the Challlenges of Globalization through an Adequate, Focused and Rational Delivery of Necessary Support Services, Appropriating Funds Therefore and for other Purposes, otherwise known as The Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act of 1997. (Department of Agriculture], 1998)