Reg. No. GR/RNP/GOA/32 RNI No. GOAENG/2002/6410 Panaji, 28th March, 2013 (Chaitra 7, 1935) SERIES I No. 52 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY NOTE There is one Extraordinary issue to the Official Gazette, Series I No. 51 dated 21-3-2013, namely, Extraordinary dated 26-3-2013 from pages 1959 to 1960 regarding The Goa Appropriation (No. 2) Act, 2013— Not. No. 7/3/2013-LA from Department of Law & Judiciary (Legal Affairs Division). INDEX Department Notification/Order/Bill/Amend. Subject Pages 1. a. Agriculture Not.- 3/3/Hort/A.P./2/ Scheme– Assured Price for Agricultural Produce. 1961 Dir. & ex officio Jt. Secy. /2012-13/D.Agri/475 b. —do— Not.- 3/3/Hort/State/2/ Scheme– Assistance for Improvement of Productivity 1964 /2012-13/D.Agri/476 in Coconut Gardens. c. —do— Not.- 3/4/Agron/Sug/3-7/ Scheme– Programme for establishment of Sugarcane 1966 /2012-13/D.Agri/421 Seed Farm. d. —do— Not.- 1/2/51/2013-D.Agri/ Scheme— Kissan Mitra. 1967 /2130 2. Civil Supplies & Con. Aff. Not.- DCS/S/4/KER/PF/ Wholesale & Retail Price of Kerosene for domestic 1969 Dir. & ex officio Jt. Secy. /2012-13/2288 purpose. 3. a. Education, Art & Culture Not.- 1/11/2012/C.S./ Rules and Regulations for the Corpus Fund for the 1969 Dte. Archives & Archaeology /Corpus Fund/DAA-1613 Reis Magos Heritage Centre. Dir. & ex officio Jt. Secy. b. Art & Culture Amends. DAC/5/EST/160 Amendments to 16 Schemes. 1972 Dir. & ex officio Addl. Secy. /Scheme/06/6997 to 7012 4. Goa Legislature Secretariat Bill.- LA/LEGN/2013/3432 The Goa Appropriation (Vote on Account) Bill, 2013. 1979 5. Water Resources Not.- 207/CE-WRD-CPO/ The Goa Ground Water Regulation (Amendment) 1982 Chief Engineer & ex officio /2012-13/1391 Rules, 2013. Additional Secretary. 6. Government Printing Press Subscription Rates. 1983 GOVERNMENT OF GOA activities. Government is therefore pleased to introduce scheme of Assured Price for the Department of Agriculture agricultural produce especially for Arecanut, ___ Coconut, Cashewnut, Paddy and Sugarcane. Notification 1. Short title and commencement.— (i) The 3/3/Hort/A.P./2/2012-13/D.Agri/475 scheme shall be called “Assured Price for Agricultural Produce”. The costs of cultivation have been increasing in recent years alongwith difficulty in (ii) The scheme shall come into force with availability of labour. Under these immediate effect and shall remain in force till circumstances, farmers expect to receive at it is withdrawn. least an economically remunerative price for (iii) The scheme shall cover all talukas of the produce so that they maintain agricultural the State of Goa. 1961 Suggestions are welcome on e-mail: dir–[email protected] OFFICIAL GAZETTE — GOVT. OF GOA SERIES I No. 52 28TH MARCH, 2013 2. Objectives.— (i) To assure the farmer of (viii) All the traders procuring the minimum rate in advance so as to encourage commodities under Assured Price scheme shall them to venture into investments in be required to be registered with the agriculture with full confidence. Directorate of Agriculture w.e.f. 01-04-2013, and the claim thereafter shall be admitted only from (ii) To help maintain traditional plantation those traders who are registered with that support rural economy of Goa. Department of Agriculture, Government of Goa. (iii) To generate employment in rural Goa. (ix) Quantity claim of less than 50 kgs. for (iv) To attract younger generation to arecanut, 500 Nos. of coconut, 50 kgs. of agriculture as an economical viable activity. cashewnut, 100 kgs. of paddy and 50 kg. of alsando shall not be considered for benefit 3. Selection of farmers.— (i) The farmer under Assured Price scheme. claiming assured price should be cultivating the crops under claim in Goa State. 4. Pattern of assistance.— (i) Pattern of assistance for Arecanut: The arecanut sold (ii) The land under cultivation should be in from 1st April, 2012 shall be considered for his/her own name or held on lease/contract providing assured price as below: or by power of attorney or by inheritance or as co-owner. Category Minimum rate Maximum Maximum assured support admissible (iii) In case of land not being in applicants’ (Rs./kg) (Rs./kg) qty. in kgs. name, the concerned document authorising per farmer him/her for cultivation should be produced. Supari 170.00 20.00 (iv) In seasonal crops claim upto 2000 kgs. Khoka, Lal 6,400 in case of paddy and 400 kgs. in case of Khoka, Vench 120.00 10.00 alsando, land documents may not be provided however, an Undertaking shall be required to The arecanut produce sold in the year be produced towards the arrangement done 2011-12 shall be provided support price for seasonal cultivation. as approved and announced for the year 2011-12 as follows:– (v) The farmer should sell their produce to approved dealers/traders only. Such traders Category Minimum rate Maximum Maximum should be duly registered with Goa State assured support admissible Agricultural Produce Marketing Board for ( Rs./kg) ( Rs./kg) qty. in kgs. arecanut, coconut, cashew, alsando/paddy per farmer and/or with Department of Agriculture. Supari 100.00 20.00 The farmer should sell sugarcane to Khoka, Lal 6,400 Sanjeevani Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Ltd., and Khoka Vench 100.00 10.00 oil palm fruits to M/s Godrej Agrovet Ltd., being the approved companies which are allotted The support under Assured Price scheme the factory zone for procurement. shall cease if the price in market exceeds (vi) In case of cashewnut cultivated on Rs. 170/- in case of supari and Rs. 120/- in case verbal lease or verbal arrangement or by of khoka and other categories of produce. traditional arrangement, assured price shall be Minimum quantity that would be considered allowed upto 1000 kgs. based on affidavit to for Assured Price benefit scheme shall be that effect. 50 kgs. (vii) The receipt towards claim should be (ii) Pattern of assistance for Coconut: Benefit endorsed by Goa State Agriculture Marketing of assured price shall be provided to the Board for coconut, cashewnut, arecanut and coconut sold to registered trader to the extent by concerned processing factory for of difference between assured rate of Rs. 8/- sugarcane and oil palm fruits and Department and the price received per nut by the farmers. of Agriculture in case of paddy. Benefit shall be limited to 50,000 nuts 1962 OFFICIAL GAZETTE — GOVT. OF GOA SERIES I No. 52 28TH MARCH, 2013 per beneficiary for a maximum area of of harvesting charges and transport cost shall 5 hectares with 800 bearing coconut trees. The be provided to sugarcane growers towards per hectare production of coconut shall be sugarcane, sold to Sanjeevani Sahakari Sakhar treated as per actual but not more than 10,000 Kharkana Ltd. (SSSK). The difference between nuts per ha. Farmer having lesser area would Rs. 2,400/- and the price per tonne announced be paid proportionate to their area. The rate by SSSK shall be paid by Department of received by farmer shall be the actual price Agriculture directly to the farmers for the received or the average minimum rate for the produce sold to SSSK Ltd. week notified by Goa State Agricultural (vi) Pattern of assistance for Alsando: Benefit Marketing Board, whichever is higher. of assured price of Rs. 70/- per kg. of alsando Minimum number of coconuts sold shall not shall be provided to alsando sold by the grower be less than 500 number to avail the benefit to the extent of difference between Rs. 70/- per under the above scheme. kg. and actual price received per kg. by (iii) Pattern of assistance for Cashew: farmers from sale to Co-operative Societies. A Benefit of assured price of Rs. 90/- per kg shall maximum of 800 kgs. from one hectare of be provided to raw cashewnut sold by farmers area shall be provided with the benefit. to the extent of difference between Minimum quantity to be sold by farmer to avail Rs. 90/- per kg and the price received per kg. benefit shall not be less than 50 kgs. by the farmer. The received price shall be actual price received by sale or average rate (vii) Pattern of assistance for Oil Palm: for the week notified by the Goa State Benefit of assured price of Rs. 9,000/- per ton Agricultural Marketing Board (GSAMB), of oil palm fruit shall be provided to the whichever is higher. In case the rates are growers for sale of produce to M/s Godrej not notified for the week by SGAMB, the last Agrovet Ltd., Satari. The difference between rates as notified would be considered as Rs. 9,000/- and the price per tonne notified by rate of sale in the market. Goa Oil Palm Project Management Committee shall be paid by Department of Agriculture Benefit of the scheme shall be provided to maximum of 2,000 kg. per individual cultivator, directly to the farmers under this scheme. considering maximum area of 5 ha. with 1,000 5. General guidelines and procedure.— (i) bearing cashew trees. The farmers having The farmer shall apply to the Zonal Agricultural less area would be paid assured price Officer in prescribed form indicating the proportionate to their area. Minimum quantity number of trees and/or area under cultivation that would be considered to avail benefit shall of specific crop and yield alongwith the not be less than 50 kgs. documents prescribed. (iv) Pattern of assistance for Paddy: (ii) Zonal Agricultural Officer shall verify Difference between assured price of Rs. 17/- per kg. and actual price received by farmers the correctness of the claim from office records for sale of paddy to the authorized paddy or actual verification on site and determine the purchase agencies shall be provided under the quantity of produce admissible if required.