Grain Marketing Act [Chapter 18:14]. Country/Territory Zimbabwe Document type Legislation Date 1966 (1991) Source FAO, FAOLEX Long titleAn Act to provide for the establishment of a Grain Marketing Board and to prescribe the powers, functions and duties of such Board; to regulate and control the prices and marketing of certain agricultural products and their derivatives; and to provide for matters incidental to the foregoing. Subject Food & nutrition Keyword Cereals/grains/rice Agricultural commodities Internal trade Institution International trade Food security Geographical area Africa, Eastern Africa, Landlocked Developing Nations Abstract This Act establishes the Grain Marketing Board as a body corporate. The Board shall establish and administer in accordance with this section a trading reserve fund for each controlled product or each class of controlled product in accordance with section 22. “Controlled product” means any agricultural product or any product derived therefrom declared by the Minister, in terms of section 29 to be a controlled product. Different agricultural products may be declared by the Minister to be controlled products in different areas. The Board shall trade in controlled products, provide storage, handling and processing facilities for controlled products and maintain stocks of controlled products (sect. 26). Section 32 provides for registration of producers, millers or other persons dealing in controlled products. No person shall sell or otherwise dispose of any controlled product within the prescribed area except to the Grain Marketing Board, but a person who is the producer of any controlled product may sell such controlled product otherwise than to the Board if it is bona fide sold by him for use as seed (sect. 33). A similar rule applies to acquisition of controlled products in a prescribed area (sect. 34). Section 35 specifies controlled products exempted from provisions of this Act. (43 sections divided into 7 Parts) Full text English Website www.parlzim.gov.zw References - Legislation Implemented by Grain Marketing (Temporary Controlled Products Declaration) (Seed Cotton and Seed Cotton Products) Notice, 2012 (S.I. 106A of 2012). Legislation | Zimbabwe | 2012 Keyword: Planting material/seeds, Textile plants/fibres, Internal trade, Plant production, Crops/grasses Source: FAO, FAOLEX Grain Marketing (Controlled Products Declaration) (Maize and Wheat) Notice 2001 (S.I. 235A of 2001). Legislation | Zimbabwe | 2001 Keyword: Cereals/grains/rice, Internal trade, Agricultural commodities Source: FAO, FAOLEX Grain Marketing (Control of Sale of Maize) Regulations, 2019 (S.I. 145 of 2019). Legislation | Zimbabwe | 2019 Keyword: Food security, Food quality control/food safety, Cereals/grains/rice, Internal trade, Agricultural commodities, Plant production, Planting material/seeds, Contract farming Source: FAO, FAOLEX Amended by Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) (Amendment of Grain Marketing Act) Regulations, 2012 (S.I. 125 of 2012). Legislation | Zimbabwe | 2012 Keyword: Cereals/grains/rice, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Liability/compensation, Agricultural commodities Source: FAO, FAOLEX