IT is hereby notified that the Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water, and Rural Resettlement has, in terms of section 39 of the Grain Marketing Act [Chapter 18:14], made the following regulations:—
Title
- These regulations may be cited as the Grain Marketing (Control of Sale of Soya Beans) Regulations, 2021.
Application
2. These regulations are additional to any contractual obligations agreed to by a contract farmer and to the extent of any inconsistency with the contracted obligations, these regulations shall prevail.
Interpretation
3. In these regulations—
“agricultural produce” means seasonal or perennial crops, livestock and fisheries produce;
“authorised agency” means any Government parastatal or entity acting on behalf of the government that is involved
in the collection, storing, distribution or marketing of agricultural produce and
“authorised person” shall be construed accordingly;
“contract farmer” means a farmer who enters into a scheme contract with either the Government or any registered
entity or person;
“contract produce” means any agricultural produce that the contract farmer has produced or undertaken to produce
to a scheme contract;
“contractor” is any person; company or entity, registered in terms of section 32 of the Act, that enters into a scheme
contract with a producer to grow soya beans;
“Grain Marketing Board” means the Grain Marketing Board established by section 3 of the Grain Marketing Act
[Chapter 18:14];
“Minister” means the Minister responsible for Lands and Agriculture or any other Minister to whom the President
may from time to time assign the administration of the Grain Marketing Act;
“producer” means any person, registered in terms of section 32 of the Act, who, by himself or herself or his or her
agents, grows soya beans;
“receiving depot” means any place appointed by the Grain Marketing Board in terms of the Grain Marketing Board
operations procedures and manual to be a receiving depot;
“scheme contract” means a contract between—
(a) a contract farmer and the Government of Zimbabwe; or
(b) contract farmer and a registered entity or person contract;
to produce soya beans where under the contractor supplies agricultural inputs in return for the contract farmer
delivering the contract produce to the designated delivery points or GMB depots specified in the scheme contract;
“sell” includes to keep, offer, expose, transmit, convey, prepare for sale, barter, exchange or hawk, display or advertise for sale, exchange or dispose for valuable consideration.
“soya beans” means harvested whole seed or crushed but unprocessed and unmanufactured soya bean.
Control of soya beans
4. (1) Subject to these regulations soya beans is a controlled product in terms of section 29 of the Act.
(2) The area within which the product shall be controlled is all the provinces of Zimbabwe.
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