(a) the supervision, control and direction of all matters relating to
(i) forest resources and the utilization, protection, conservation, management, surveying, mapping and development of forest resources,
(ii) logging camps,
(iii) agriculture in all its branches and in its widest sense, including, without limitation of the word "agriculture", agronomy, horticulture, animal husbandry, aviculture, the development of pasturage and the growing of hay and the products of agriculture, including, without limitation of the word "products", animals, meats, eggs, poultry, wool, dairy products, berries, grains, seeds, fruit, including wild fruit, fruit products, vegetables and vegetable products,
(iv) animal health,
(v) food technology and marketing,
(vi) agricultural land and the utilization, protection, conservation, management, surveying, mapping and development of agricultural land, and
(vii) the administration, subject to the Public Service Rearrangements and Transfers of Duties Act, of the Acts set out in the Schedule and of all orders and regulations passed or made under those Acts and of those other Acts, orders and regulations that are designated by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council,
which are not by law or by order of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council assigned to another minister or department of the government;
(b) liaison and co-operation with
(i) the Government of Canada or a department, agency or body under the jurisdiction of that government,
(ii) the government of a province or a department, agency or body under the jurisdiction of the government of a province or under the jurisdiction of the government of this province, or
(iii) a corporation or other body or person
that may be necessary or desirable for carrying out the purpose of this Act;
(c) the undertaking, promotion or recommendation of measures for the control and direction of matters referred to in paragraph (a);
(d) the collection, compilation, analyzing and recording of statistical and other information relating to matters referred to in paragraph (a);
(e) the preparation and publication of statistics, reports, records, bulletins, pamphlets, circulars and other means of disseminating information in relation to matters referred to in paragraph (a);
(f) the study of, reporting on and advising upon the administration of matters referred to in paragraph (a);
(g) the consideration of and reporting upon a recommendation for a change in the laws of the province relating to matters referred to in paragraph (a) that is presented or made by an organization or person;
(h) the making of inquiries into and reports upon legislation respecting matters referred to in paragraph (a) in force in Canada and throughout the world and, on the basis of those inquiries and reports, making those recommendations that may be advisable with regard to the laws of the province;
(i) the doing of other things or the exercise of other powers that are necessary or desirable for carrying out the purpose of this Act; and
(j) the exercise and discharge of other powers, functions and duties that the Lieutenant-Governor in Council assigns to the minister.