The Commission’s strategic plan provides a reference point for quantifying the Commission’s priorities over the immediate, short and longer term and for evaluating the Commission’s performance in respect to achieving its functions under the Act.
These functions are:
establish producers’ committees with responsibility for agricultural produce;
allocate responsibility for agricultural produce to existing producers’ committees;
remove responsibility for agricultural produce from existing producers’ committees;
appoint members to producers’ committees;
advertise for the formation of producers’ committees;
conduct polls under this Act;
wind up the affairs of producers’ committees and appoint liquidators for that purpose;
dissolve producers’ committees;
provide such services in relation to the functioning of producers’ committees as are necessary from time to time;
provide, as are necessary from time to time, persons to assist producers’ committees in carrying out their functions under this Act;
direct, coordinate and supervise the functioning and expenditure of producers’ committees; and
provide such other services to producers’ committees as the Minister may direct.