Mario Mercado E Hijos (Central Rufina) v. Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture

EDGERTON, Chief Judge.

Appellant, a producer-processor of sugar in Puerto Rico, seeks declaratory and injunctive relief against action of the Secretary of Agriculture under the Sugar Act of 1948, 61 Stat. 922, 7 U.S.C.A. § 1100 ff. The Act authorizes the Secretary to make certain payments, from funds appropriated by Congress, to producer-processors who comply with certain conditions, one of which is that they pay, for beets or cane grown by other producers, not less than rates “that may be determined by the Secretary to be fair and reasonable after investigation and due notice and opportunity…