Miss. Code Ann. § 57-1-65: Miss. Code Ann. § 57-1-65

The Mississippi Department of Economic Development shall have the following general powers and duties with respect to marketing:

(a) To promote and stimulate the development of new markets for Mississippi products and goods.

(b) To encourage the establishment of industrial operations to process agricultural and forestry raw products to an end-product stage, ready for sale to the markets of the nation and the world; and

(c) To coordinate all studies in the State of Mississippi concerned with the development of markets for Mississippi products and goods.