Agriculture Marketing Authority (Command Agriculture Scheme for Domestic Crop, Livestock and Fisheries Production) Regulations, 2017 (S.I. 79 of 2017).

These Regulations of the Minister of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development, made under section 50 of the Agricultural Marketing Authority Act, creates a hypothec ("statutory hypothec") in its favour- a) over all agriculture inputs supplied to contract farmers; and (b) over all contract produce produced by contract fanners; and (c) over all identifiable proceeds from the sale or misappropriation of agricultural inputs, including cash; and (d) any movable chattel on the land or premises of the contract farmer in the absence of the inputs, produce or proceeds specified in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) to the extent that those hypothecated items do not cover the monetary value of inputs supplied but not consumed in accordance with a Scheme contract. The hypothec is established to secure contracted obligations to use agricultural inputs or deliver contract produce in accordance with a Scheme contract (defined by these Regulations) between the Government and a farmer. The Regulations also defined the offences of misappropriation of agricultural inputs.