The Government of Goa on July 06, 2023, issued a notification regarding the amendment to the State Sector Scheme Assured Price for Agricultural Produce
This Amendment shall come into force from February 01, 2023, for cashew and from April 01, 2023 for paddy and coconut.
The following has been stated namely: -
• It states that Serial No. 4 (ii) which states the “Pattern for Assistance for Coconut” the Sr. No. 1 is replaced with the following namely: -
ii. Pattern for Assistance for Coconut:
(a) Benefit of the assured price shall be provided to the coconut sold to registered traders to the extent of difference between the assured rate of Rs. 15/- and the price received per nut by the farmer.
(b) The benefit shall be limited to 50,000 nuts per beneficiary for a maximum area of 5 ha. with 800 bearing coconut trees. The per ha. production of coconut shall be treated as per actual but not more than 10,000 nuts per ha. Farmers having lesser area would be paid proportionate to their area. The rate received by farmers shall be the actual price received or the average minimum rate for the week notified by Goa State Agricultural Marketing Board whichever is higher.
(c) Minimum number of coconuts sold shall not be less than 500 nos. to avail the benefit under the above scheme.
(d) The Directorate of Agriculture will fix the average minimum rate by calculating the average minimum rates given by ‘Goa Agricultural Produce & Livestock Marketing Board, Arlem, Raia, Salcete-Goa (GAPLMB), and other co-operative societies purchasing coconut.
(e) The average minimum price fixed per coconut will not be less than Rs. 6/- per nut and the maximum assured price to be paid to an individual farmer shall not exceed Rs. 3.5 lakhs.
• In Serial No. 4 (iii) which states the “Pattern of Assistance for Cashew” at Sr. No. 1 is replaced with the following namely: -
iii. Pattern of Assistance for Cashew:
(a) Benefit of the assured price of Rs. 150/- shall be provided to raw cashew nut sold by farmers to the extent of difference between Rs. 150/- kg. and the price received per kg. by the farmer. The price received shall be the actual price received by sale or the average rate for the week notified by the Goa Agricultural Produce & Livestock Marketing Board, Arlem, Raia, Salcete-Goa (GAPLMB) whichever is higher. In case the rates are not notified for the week by GAPLMB the last rates as notified would be considered as rate of sale in the market.
(b) Benefit of the scheme shall be provided to a maximum of 2000 kgs. per individual cultivator, considering max. area of 05 ha. The farmers having less area would be paid an assured price proportionate to their area. The minimum quantity that would be considered to avail benefit shall not be less than 50 kg.
[Notifcation No. 3/3/Hort/SSS/2/2023-24/D.Agri/152]
