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(1) Anamount equivalent to the proceeds of the duly levied and collected under thisAct, reduced by the cost of collection as determined by the Central Government,together with any moneys, received by the Central Government for the purposes ofthis Act, shall, after due appropriation made by Parliament by law, be utilisedby the Central Government to meet the expenditure incurred in connection withmeasures which, in the opinion of that Government, are necasesary or expedientto promote the improvement, development and marketing of produce.
(2) Inparticular, and without prejudice to the generality of the provisions ofSub-section (1), the proceeds of the duly levied and collected under this Actmay be utilized by the Central Government for all or any of the followingpurposes, namely :--
(a)undertaking, assisting of encouraging, agricultural, industrial, technologicaland economic research, including research on the utilization of the productsobtained from any produce;
(b)supplying technical advice to cultivators, growers and millers;
(c)encouraging the adoption of improved methods of cultivation and storage ofcrops;
(d)producing, testing and distributing improved varieties of crops or assistingsuch work;
(e)assisting in the control of insects and other pests and diseases of the crops,both in the field and in storage;
(f)promoting the improvement of the marketing of produce and the products obtainedtherefrom in India and abroad including the setting up and adoption of gradestandards for the produce and the products obtained therefrom;
(g)collecting statistics from cultivators, growers, dealers and occupiers of millson all relevant matters and promoting improvement in the forecasting of cropsand the preparation of all relevant stastitics relating to the crops and theproducts obtained therefrom;
(h)maintaining, and assisting in the maintenance of, such institutes; farms andstations as the Central Government may consider necasesary;
(i)advising and providing assistance on all matters connected with the improvementof the cultivation of crops (including advising on the best and most suitablevarieties of the crops to be cultivated) and the improvement of the industriesusing the crops and the products-obtained therefrom;
(j)promoting and encouraging the co-operative movement by any connected industry;
(k)adopting such measures as may be practicable for ensuring remunerative returnsto the growers;
(l)organising the establishment of cultivators', growers', millers' and consumers'organisations:
(m)aiding and encouraging the establishment of exhibitions for demonstrating theuses of the produce and the products obtained therefrom;
(n)adopting any other measures which the Central Government may deem to benecasesary or advisable to carry out the purposes of this Act.
(3) Inthis section, "crops" means crops or plants from which any produce isobtained 1 [and "produce" includes cotton].
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1. Inserted byCotton, Copra and Vegetable Oils Cases (Abolition) Act (4 of 1987), Section 5w.e.f. 21-3-87.
2.Section 6 omitted by the Vegetable Oils Cases Act, 1983 (30 of 1983). Section 7(not yet enforced), Section 6 prior to omission was as under--