Goa Agricultural Produce Marketing (Development and Regulation) Act, 2007 (Goa Act No. 11 of 2007).

The Act, consisting of 84 sections divided into twelve Chapters and one Schedule, provides for improved regulation in marketing of agricultural produce, development of efficient marketing system, promotion of agricultural processing and export. It also aims at establishing and managing markets for agricultural produce and to put in place an effective infrastructure for marketing of agricultural produce within the State of Goa. In particular, it specifies that upon a representation made by any person or local authority or by the growers of any agricultural produce within the area for which a market is proposed to be established, the Government or the person appointed by the Government as the State Marketing Officer, may, by notification in the Official Gazette declare his/her intention of developing and regulating the marketing of such agricultural produce. The Government shall establish the Goa Agricultural Marketing Board which shall have powers and functions as specified int this Act.
Chapter VII of the Act is devoted to contract farming. Details are laid down as regards the procedure and form by which the producer and the sponsor may enter into a contract farming agreement.