Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The Committee shall apply the Fund to meeting the expenses of the Committee and the cost of such measures as it may consider necessary or expedient to take for the improvement and development of the cultivation and marketing of coconuts and of the production, utilization and marketing of copra, coconut oil [coconut poonac and such other coconut products (excepting coir and its products) as the Committee may determine]. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, the Committee may utilise the Fund to defray expenditure involved in-- (a) undertaking, assisting or encouraging agricultural, industrial, technological and economic research; [(6) the supply of technical advice to growers of coconut, and to persons engaged in any coconut industry;] (c) encouraging the adoption of improved methods in cultivation; (d) carrying on such propaganda in the interests of the coconut industry as may be necessary; (e) collecting statistics from growers, dealers, millers and other sources on all relevant matters bearing on the industry; (f) fixing grade standards of copra and its products; (g) recommending the maximum and minimum prices to be fixed for copra; (h) advising on all matters which requite attention for the development of the industry; (i) improving the marketing of coconuts in India and abroad and suggesting suitable measures to prevent unfair competition; (j) assisting in the control of insects and other pests and diseases of coconut trees; (k) promoting and encouraging co-operative efforts among the coconut growers and in the coconut industries; (l) adopting such measures as may be practicable for assuring remunerative returns to growers; (m) maintaining and assisting in the maintenance of such institutes, farms and stations as it may consider necessary; (n) adopting any other measures or performing any other duties which it may be required by the Central Government to adopt or perform or which the Committee itself may think necessary or advisable in order to carry out the purposes of this Act.] Substituted by Act 15 of 1946, Section 5, for the original section Substituted by Act 69 of 1952, Section 5, for "and coconut poonac". Substituted by Act 69 of 1952, Section 5, for clause (b).