Food and Agricultural Research Council
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND EXTENSION UNIT
Chargeable Services
The public is hereby being informed that a fee will be charged for the
provision of training, pest and disease diagnosis, consultancy, field
assessment, testing of products & germsplasm and publications.
• Small farmers and registered NGOs are exempted.
• Further information on the chargeable services is available below and at the
Extension Offices of AREU.
3rd floor Newry Complex
St Jean Road
Quatre Bornes
Tel: 4663885 Fax: 4648809 Email: areu@intnet:mu
05 July 2011
Services for which a user fee will be charged
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Chargeable activity |
Fees (Rs) |
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1. |
Design of Hydroponic greenhouses / shade houses / nurseries |
3,500/design |
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2. |
Design of fertigation system |
3,500/design |
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3. |
Project write up (business plans) |
1.5% of project value |
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4. |
Consultancy (visits/recommendations) |
500/visit |
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5. |
Visits for field status report (Crop/Livestock) |
500/visit |
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6. |
B carriers report for livestock farmers/planters (flowers) |
500/report |
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7. |
Delivery of talks |
500/session |
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8. |
Sale of booklets |
At print cost for publications above Rs 15 |
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9. |
Training courses |
400 as course fee/session/person 300 as registration
fee |
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10. |
Renting of training room (after working hrs/Saturdays) |
1000/hr |
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11. |
On site diagnostic visit |
1500 |
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12. |
Disease diagnosis at Plant Pathology |
100 for conventional test 1,000 for ELISA test 1,200 for PCR test |
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13. |
Testing of new products (fungicides) |
20,000/product |
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14. |
Testing of fertilizers |
40,000 – 60,000 / product |
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15. |
Testing of new products (insecticides) |
Laboratory test: 5,500-12,000/product Field test: 11,100-30,000/product |
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16. |
Sale of parasitoids |
350/jar |
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17. |
Seed Quality test & Germination test |
500/test |
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18. |
Substrates/soil/water analysis (bacterial wilt) |
150/test |
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19. |
Analysis of feed (i) Dry matter degradability (ii) Fermentation characteristic (iii) Dry matter digestibility |
730/sample 775/sample 1000/sample |