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

 

Chargeable activity

Fees (Rs)

1.

Design of Hydroponic greenhouses / shade houses / nurseries

3,500/design

2.

Design of fertigation system

3,500/design

3.

Project write up (business plans)

1.5% of project value

4.

Consultancy (visits/recommendations)

500/visit

5.

Visits for field status report (Crop/Livestock)

500/visit

6.

B carriers report for livestock farmers/planters (flowers)

500/report

7.

Delivery of talks

500/session

8.

Sale of booklets

At print cost for publications above Rs 15

9.

Training courses

400 as course fee/session/person

300 as registration fee
(600 for agro-processing courses)

10.

Renting of training room (after working hrs/Saturdays)

1000/hr

11.

On site diagnostic visit

1500

12.

Disease diagnosis at Plant Pathology

100 for conventional test

1,000 for ELISA test

1,200 for PCR test

13.

Testing of new products (fungicides)

20,000/product

14.

Testing of fertilizers

40,000 – 60,000 / product

15.

Testing of new products (insecticides)

Laboratory test: 5,500-12,000/product

Field test: 11,100-30,000/product

16.

Sale of parasitoids

350/jar

17.

Seed Quality test & Germination test

500/test

18.

Substrates/soil/water analysis (bacterial wilt)

150/test

19.

Analysis of feed

(i) Dry matter degradability

(ii) Fermentation characteristic

(iii) Dry matter digestibility

 

730/sample

775/sample

1000/sample