A district may employ an expert in agriculture and related matters and such assistants as may be deemed necessary to do any of the following:
- (a) Supervise the construction of works for the irrigation or protection of district lands.
- (b) Advise landowners, or any person engaged in farming district land, of methods of increasing the productiveness of such land or as to any matters of husbandry.
- (c) Conduct experiments as prescribed by the board.
- (d) Perform duties for the general welfare of the people of the district as prescribed by the board.