54 SEC. 19. Power Services Priority. – In the delivery of power services, priority shall be given to provinces and cities in the autonomous region which need but do not have direct access to such services. SEC. 20. Pioneering Firms. – The Regional Assembly may create pioneering firms and other business entities to boost economic development in the autonomous region. Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquatic Resources SEC. 21. Farming and Fishing Cooperatives. – The Regional Government shall recognize, promote, and protect the rights and welfare of farmers, farm-workers, fisherfolk, and fishworkers, as well as cooperatives and associations of farmers and fish-workers. SEC. 22. Agricultural Productivity; Organic Farming. – The Regional Government shall encourage agricultural productivity and promote diversified and organic farming. SEC. 23. Soil and Water Conservation. – The Regional Government shall give top priority to the conservation, protection, utilization, and development of soil and water resources for agricultural purposes. SEC. 24. Aquatic and Fisheries Code. – The Regional Assembly may enact an aquatic and fisheries code which shall enhance, develop, conserve, and protect marine and aquatic resources, and shall protect the rights of subsistence fisherfolk to the preferential use of communal marine and fishing resources, including seaweeds. This protection shall extend to offshore fishing grounds, up to and including all waters fifteen (15) kilometers from the coastline of the autonomous region but within the territorial waters of the Republic, regardless of depth and the seabed and the subsoil that are included between two (2) lines drawn perpendicular to the general coastline from points where the boundary lines of the autonomous region touch the sea at low tide and a third line parallel to the general coastline.