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Marketing of Agricultural Products Act, 1996 (Act No. 47 of 1996)

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Establishment of Statutory Measure : Records and Returns in respect of Pome Fruit, Stone Fruit, Grapes and Citrus Fruit

5. Records to be kept by stakeholders of the fruit industry

 

Stakeholders are required to keep a copy of their data via the industry standard transmission files, namely the Dispatch Transmission (PO) files, the Mates Transmission (MT) files, Stock Transmission (PS) files and Intake Transmission (PI) files. These files are created by the systems that the stakeholders are using. The following information is required on these files, namely—

 

(1) For reporting purposes
(a) Commodity
(b) Variety (as approved by PPECB)
(c) Size/Count
(d) Grade
(e) Pack
(f) Country of Origin
(g) Destination Region and/or
(h) Destination Country
(i) Intake date
(j) Channel (fruit destined for local or export markets)
(k) Season ( the season in which the fruit falls)
(l) Mass (nett weight of the fruit in the pallet)
(m) Ship name
(n) Voyage number
(o) Sail date
(p) Load Port
(q) Discharge Port
(r) Transport (air, sea or land)

 

(2) For data validation, removal of duplicates and derived data:
a. Source System
b. Pallet Identification
c. Organisation
d. Container Number (if the pallets loaded in containers)
e. Location code
f. Farm code (PUC)
g. Packhouse code (PHC)
h. Temperature device
i. Temperature device type
j. Temperature
k. Phyto data
l. Pallet Treatment