Purpose of Chapter

The purpose of this Chapter is to promote, foster and encourage the intelligent and orderly marketing of agricultural products through cooperation; and to eliminate speculation and waste; and to make the distribution of agricultural products between producer and consumer as direct as can be efficiently done; and to stabilize the marketing of agricultural products. It is hereby recognized that agriculture is characterized by individual production in contrast to the group or factory system that characterizes other forms of individual production; and that the ordinary form of corporate organization permits industrial groups to combine for the purpose of group production and the ensuing group marketing their industry to the high degree of efficiency and merchandising skill evidenced in the manufacturing industries; and that the public interest urgently needs to prevent the migration from the farm in order to keep up farm production and to preserve the agricultural supply of Guam; and that the public interest demands that the farmer be encouraged to attain a superior and more direct system of marketing in the substitution of merchandising for the blind, unscientific and speculative selling of crops.