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Root Crop General Order (Regulation 198/94).

Country/Territory
Canada
Territorial subdivision
Manitoba
Document type
Regulation
Date
1994 (2019)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Agricultural & rural development, Food & nutrition, Cultivated plants
Keyword
Agricultural land Certification Agricultural commodities Authorization/permit Vegetables/legumes Classification/declassification Processing/handling Transport/storage Internal trade Vending Packaging/labelling
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

Each producer of a root crop shall, on or before the 30th day of June in each year, apply to this Board for certification of all land on which that producer intends to grow or harvest a type of root crop during that year. Each application shall be in writing and shall be signed by the applicant. No producer shall market a type of root crop unless that type of root crop was grown or harvested on land certified by this Board for the growing of that type of root crop pursuant to an application made by that producer. No person shall market a root crop unless it has been graded and inspected as required by the Canada Agricultural Products Standards Act and regulations made thereunder, and is packed and marked in the manner prescribed by such Act or regulations. Onions shall be classified under the following classes: (a) yellow Spanish-type onions; and (b) cooking onions. No person engaged in the marketing of a root crop shall purchase or otherwise acquire root crops except from or through this Board. No processor shall purchase or otherwise acquire a root crop grown or harvested in Manitoba expect from or through this Board, unless otherwise permitted by this Board. No person shall market a root crop unless such root crop is packed in a container, the type and class of root crop wherein weighs either 25 or 50 pounds (11.34, or 22.68 kilograms). No person shall transport or deliver for transport (except to a transporter retained by this Board) a root crop unless such person has been issued a delivery order by this Board for the root crop being transported. No person shall repack a container of a type of root crop unless such person has been licenced by the Board as a licenced repacker for that type. This Order does not apply to: (a) red Spanish-type onions; (b) white Spanish-type onions; (c) onion sets; (d) multiplier onions; (e) pickling onions; and (f) rutabagas.

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