CONSTITUTION OF A STATE LEVEL COMMITTEE AND ASSISTANCE FOR ESTABLISHING HORTICULTURE ENTERPRISES AT 25% STATE SUBSIDY NOT EXCEEDING RUPEES FIVE LAKHS.

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No. Puducherry Wednesday 12th March 2014

( 21 Phalguna 1935)

GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY

CHIEF SECRETARIAT (AGRICULTURE AND FORESTS)

(G.O. Ms. NO. 29/Ag., dated 7th March 2014)

NOTIFICATION

His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, Puducherry is pleased to approve and notify the scheme called "Assistance for Establishing

Horticultural Enterprises/Projects at 25% subsidy not exceeding ` 5.00 lakhs" under the Scheme "Diversification in Agriculture through Horticulture Crops" as appended to this order for implementation in the

Union territory of Puducherry. It shall come into force with immediate effect.

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2. His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, Puducherry has also

been pleased to constitute the committee for the purpose of the said

scheme with the following members:

(i) The Director of Agriculture . . Chairman

(ii) The Additional Director of Agriculture . . Member

(Horticulture).

(iii) The Additional Director of Agriculture (T &V) . . Member

(iv) The Joint Director of Agriculture (MCP) . . Member

(v) The Junior/Senior Accounts Officer, . . Member

Directorate of Agriculture.

(vi) The Deputy Director of Agriculture . . Member-

(Horticulture).

Secretary.

3. The committee is empowered to take decision either to waive or

not to waive, the period of discontinuance of production on the basis

of representation made either with or without any condition. If any doubt

arises with regard to interpretation of any of the provisions of the

scheme, the matter shall be referred to the committee and the decision of the

committee shall be final and binding on the owner/beneficiary of the unit.

4. The nominee from other Institution/Department shall be

nominated by the concerned Head of Institution/Head of Department.

5. The headquarters of the committee shall be at Puducherry.

6. The committee shall meet as and when necessary and the

Member-Secretary of the committee shall initiate action to convene the

meetings.

7. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Department vide

their U.O. No. 3594/F5/A3, dated 7-2-2014.

(By order)

V. MANICKASAMY,

Under Secretary to Government

(Agriculture and Forests).

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ANNEXURE

MODUS OPERANDI/ OPERATIONAL GUIDELINES FOR

CONSTITUTION OF A STATE LEVEL COMMITTEE AND

ASSISTANCE FOR ESTABLISHING HORTICULTURE

ENTERPRISES AT 25% STATE SUBSIDY NOT EXCEEDING

RUPEES FIVE LAKHS

1. Short title, extent and commencement.— This scheme shall be called as "Assistance for Establishing Horticultural Enterprise/Projects at 25% State subsidy not exceeding ` 5.00 lakhs" for protected cultivation (green house structures) for production of vegetables, flowers, fruits and nursery production, improving of logistics for marketing like purchase of transport vehicles, purchase of mini lorry (6 MT), refrigerated van, post harvest infrastructural facilities like cold storage and fruit ripening unit.

The scheme shall be implemented from the date of notification.

2. Definition.— In this modus operandi, unless the context

otherwise requires,—

(a) "Cold storage" means any place or vehicle used to store horticulture produce like fruits, vegetables and flowers at controlled temperature for a certain period and then to market the produce at the right time to fetch higher price;

(b) "Fruit ripening unit" means any premises wherein ethylene gas is used to ripen fruits like banana, mango, papaya and etc., under controlled condition of temperature, humidity and ethylene concentration in air tight ethylene proof room, ethylene being natural hormone does not pose any health hazard;

(c) "Horticulture enterprise" means protected cultivation (green house structure/shade net house) including transport vehicle (mini lorry 6 MT), refrigerated van, cold storage unit and fruit ripening unit;

(d) "Protected cultivation (green house structure/shade net house)" means frames of green houses of inflated structure covered with a transparent material in which crops are grown under controlled environment condition and green house cultivation as

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have been evolved to create favourable microclimates, which

favours the crop production throughout the year;

(e) "Refrigerated van (Reefer van)" means to transport the

horticulture produce to the market in the refrigerated van where

the temperature would be between -10° and + 10° centigrade

depending on the type of produce being carried;

(f) "Transport vehicle" means a commercial transport vehicle

like mini lorry of capacity 6 MT for the transport of fruits and

vegetables to the market;

3. Objective of the scheme.— The objective of the scheme is to

encourage and help the horticulture farmers to enter into the Hi-tech

production of vegetables and flowers by establishing green house

structures. This type of horticultural enterprises will change the

production driven agriculture to market driven agriculture. The post

harvest logistics like purchase of transport vehicles like mini lorry (6 MT),

refrigerated van, post harvest infrastructure like cold storage, fruit

ripening unit will ensure more income by value addition and enhance

efficient and profitable marketing; consequent to the implementation of

Precision Farming Technology the need for market driven agriculture by

promoting horticultural enterprises and marketing logistics have become

the key component for successful and profitable horticulture.

4. Scope.— The main bottleneck for farmers to take up horti-

enterprises is the high initial cost and capital expenditure involved

leading to heavy indebtedness and financial constraints for running the

enterprises.

Since this scheme is being implemented with a subsidy of 25% on

the total cost of the projects; apart from other subsidies it will attract

the farmers and the Farmers' Association to take up value addition,

improved marketing logistics, etc.

5. Pattern of assistance.— Out of the total project cost, 25% assistance from the State budget not exceeding of ` 5.00 lakhs would be provided to individual farmers/Farmers' Association for establishing

horticulture enterprises namely establishing green house structures or

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fruits and improving of the logistics like purchase of transport vehicles like mini lorry (6 MT), refrigerated van, post harvest infrastructure like cold storage, fruit ripening unit for marketing their produce.

6. Eligibility norms.— (i) The individual farmers will be eligible for assistance only for the establishment of protected cultivation (green house structures).

(ii) The Farmers Associations are eligible for the assistance towards the purchase of transport vehicles like mini lorry (6 MT capacity), refrigerated van, cold storage and fruit ripening unit.

(iii) If the applicant is a farmer, he should own a minimum of

0.5 acres of land in the Puducherry region.

(iv) If the applicant is a Farmer Association, it should be a registered association with minimum of 20 farmers covering minimum area of 20 acres of horticulture crops or minimum of 10 numbers of green houses in Puducherry region.

7. Submission of application.— (i) Notification of the scheme will be issued through the departments' website (www.agri.puducherry.gov.in) and advertisements in local newspapers, Uzhavar Udhaviyagams, T & V Office and Office of the Additional Director of Agriculture (Horticulture), Botanical Garden, Puducherry.

(ii) The prescribed application form for availing the assistance under the scheme can be downloaded from the departments' website or can be obtained from the Uzhavar Udhaviyagams, T & V Office and Office of the Additional Director of Agriculture (Horticulture), Botanical Garden, Puducherry.

(iii) The application duly filled in shall be submitted to the Additional Director of Agriculture (Horticulture), Botanical Garden, Puducherry within the time limit fixed by the Office of the Additional Director of Agriculture (Horticulture).

8. Procedure and conditions for obtaining the subsidy.— (i) The subsidy would be sanctioned and released under the scheme as per the pattern of assistance and prescribed conditions of eligibility.

(ii) The beneficiary shall execute a self-sworn affidavit duly

attested by a Notary Public.

(iii) The unit shall have to continue production for 5 years and

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date of agreement. However, if the unit does not remain in continuous

production for 5 years or that subsidy was obtained by misrepresentation,

forgery, deception or that the conditions of undertaking are violated,

the subsidy amount shall be refunded to the Agriculture Department by

the beneficiary with 14% interest on issue of demand notice by the

Director of Agriculture.

(iv) The unit shall have to furnish a report containing the details

of production, employment and other relevant information each year for

each crop from the date of undertaking to the Office of the Additional

Director of Agriculture (Horticulture), Department of Agriculture,

Puducherry.

(v) The State Level Committee constituted by the Government shall

evaluate and arrange for payment of subsidy amount and also shall

resolve issues of interpretation or dispute under the scheme. The decision

of the committee shall be final and binding.

(vi) The subsidy amount shall be disbursed to the financial

institutions/banks only, if the unit/project is financed by them towards

the adjustment against the loan availed by the entrepreneur.

(vii) All amounts due from the beneficiary to the Government under

the provisions of this scheme shall be paid by him on receipt of demand.

Sufficient opportunity to show cause shall however be granted to the

units/beneficiary before a demand is raised against the units/beneficiary.

In case of default, the amount due to Government and defaulted shall

be recoverable as arrears of land revenue under the appropriate

provisions of the Revenue Recovery Act, 1970 (Act No. 14 of 1970).

9. Interpretation and clarification.— If any doubt arises with

regard to interpretation of any of the provisions of the scheme the

m a t t e r s h a l l b e r e f e r r e d t o t h e c o m m i t t e e a n d t h e d e c i s i o n o f

the committee shall be final and binding on the owner/beneficiary of

the unit.

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GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Horticulture Division, Botanical Garden, Puducherry

Application for availing financial assistance under the horticulture

development scheme to start horticulture based enterprises viz :

(1) Protected cultivation (Green house), (2) Refrigerated van (Reefer van)

(3) Cold storage, (4) Fruit ripening unit and (5) Transport vehicle (6MT)

to transport the vegetables and fruits.

1. Name of the applicant :

2. Name of the father/husband :

Affix a photograph

3. Status of applicant :

Farmer/Institution/Association

4. Full postal address :

PIN code:

Phone No:

5. Aadhaar lD No.:

6. Caste of the applicant : Scheduled Caste/Scheduled

Tribe/Other Castes

7. N a m e o f t h e v i l l a g e a n d :

commune where the land is

existing.

8. Resurvey No. of the land :

9. T o t a l a r e a o f t h e l a n d :

which the applicant possess,

(as per the revenue certificate)

10. Details of the bank account :

of the applicant.

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11. The extent of the land in which the :

cultivation is done presently.

(a) Own cultivation :

(b) Cultivation on lease :

(c) Name of the crops which are being :

cultivated.

12. Project period/Project estimate :

(Project report is to be submitted)

(a) Capital

: `

(b) Running expenditure : `

(c) Subsidy : `

13. Whether the applicant is ready t o :

make arrangement for the remaining amount, on his own, other than the subsidy amount? or whether he is going to avail loan assistance from the bank? If yes, give the details about that.

I solemnly declare that all the particulars furnished in this application are true. If it is found that the particulars furnished in the application were false wholly or partly and it is found that the particulars are hidden, I declare that I will abide by to the rejection of the application and for all the action as per law taken by the Government.

Signature of the applicant.

The enclosures to be attached with the application for office use:

(1) Project estimate / Project report

(2) Land certificate obtained from Tahsildar's Office (Part-2)

(3) Notary Affidavit in the Government Non-judicial stamp paper

for value of ` 10.

(4) Project consent letter obtained from the bankers to sanction loan.

(5) Plan of the place where the project is to be established.

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PART-II

CERTIFICATE IN REGARD TO THE LAND

OWNED BY THE APPLICANT

Note : This certificate is to be issued only for the land owned by

the applicant as per document but not for the land on lease or on

enjoyment by him, by the Revenue Officers not below the rank of Deputy

Tahsildar.

The particulars of the land which belongs to Thiru/Tmt. ...................

....................................................S/o./H/o./D/o..........................residing at

.............................................village ...............................................commune,

are as follows :-

Signature of the Tahsildar/

Place: Date: Deputy Tahsildar with office seal.

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GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Horticulture Division, Botanical Garden, Puducherry

Registration No:

Date :

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

This is the acknowledgment for the receipt of the application for

availing financial assistance under the Horticulture Development Scheme

to establish horticulture based enterprises viz. (1) Protected cultivation

(Green house) and to purchase (2) Refrigerated van (Reefer van)

(3) Cold storage (4) Fruit ripening unit and (5) Transport vehicle

(6MT) to transport the fruits and vegetables.

1. Name of the applicant

:

2. Name of father/husband :

3. Full postal address

:

4. PIN code

:

5. Phone No

:

6. The village and commune where the land

is existing

:

7. The plan in which the financial assistance

is required

:

Signature of the applicant. Signature of the person who

received the application.

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FORM

Assistance under the Horticulture Development Scheme to start horticulture based enterprises, viz., (1) Protected cultivation (Green house), (2) Refrigerated van (Reefer van), (3) Cold storage, (4) Fruit ripening unit and (5) Transport vehicle (6 MT) to transport the vegetables and fruits. (self-declaration form duly typed in ` 10 stamp paper).

AFFIDAVIT

I, Thiru/Tmt. ............................S/o./H/o./D/o. .........................................

aged.............................................years, residing at....................................

....................................................................................................................... execute the affidavit to the Director of Agriculture, Agriculture Department, Puducherry or agents appointed on behalf.

I solemnly state that—

(1) I avail this assistance from Government of Puducherry to set

up a new project at Puducherry.

(2) The land and building cost is not included in the estimation

of the project submitted.

(3) I will abide by all other rules and regulations of the

Government in force.

(4) I hereby declare and undertake that I will not sell/transfer/ dispose the units/enterprise purchased/established after availing the financial assistance from the Government for a period of 5 years from the date of starting the project.

(5) I shall undertake that the subsidised unit/enterprise, viz., Protected cultivation (Green house)/Refrigerated van (Reefer van)/ Cold storage/Fruit ripening unit/Transport vehicle (6MT) shall be maintained at least for 5 years and achieve the maximum productivity. I shall also agree to co-operate with the authorities concerned for inspecting the aforesaid unit/enterprise. All the records including bank passbook shall be produced to the Inspecting Officers. I agree to take away all the required documents or its xerox copy by the Inspecting Officers.

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(6) I shall undertake that if the item/unit proposed to be established/purchased by me after receipt of financial assistance from

the Government under the scheme is transferred/disposed, the entire assistance received from the Government will be refunded to the Government.

(7) I agree to return/refund the entire subsidy amount received from the Government in case of violation of provisions of the applicable scheme and the rules and regulations.

(8) The information furnished in the affidavit is true to my knowledge and I will abide by the rules and regulations of the Government and action, if any, taken by the Government.

Solemnly and sincerely affirms on this ........... day of ......... 2014 at Puducherry.

Witness signature and address: Signature of the applicant.

Note: Signed before Notary Public.

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