Our Services

Under Section 12 of the Agricultural Produce Commission Act 1988 Fruit West, as a producer committee is empowered to provide the following services to our members –

· Advertise and promote the agricultural produce;
· Control or develop the means of controlling pests and diseases if there is a likelihood of those
· pests or diseases affecting the quality or volume of output of the agricultural produce;
· Conduct research in relation to any matter, if in the opinion of the producers’ committee that
· research is of advantage to producers of the agricultural produce;
· Conduct educational or instructional programmes relating to the production of agricultural
· produce;
· Develop and expand markets for the agricultural produce in Western Australia and elsewhere;
· Establish a voluntary insurance scheme for the benefits of producers of the agricultural produce
· including insurance relating to crops;
· Undertake and provide market forecasting for the agricultural produce
· Establish systems of inspection for the agricultural produce for purpose of quality control or pest
· and disease control;
· Formulate schemes for declaring producers of the agricultural produce to be accredited
· producers;
· Establish systems to facilitate inspection of grading, packaging and storage of the agricultural
· produce including weight and uniformity (including uniformity of ripeness) within packages;
· Support, with or without grant of financial aid, and whether or not initiated by the committee or the
· Commission, any scheme or activity which in the committee’s opinion is capable of assisting in
· the promotion or sale of the agricultural produce;
· Provide such other services for the agricultural produce as may be prescribed;
· Establish a compensation scheme for the benefit of producers whose agricultural produce is
· destroyed as a result of action taken to control a pest or disease of that produce;
· Arrange for the provision of all or any of the services or the exercise of any of the functions
· referred to [above] in whole or in part by another person or organisation or in conjunction with the
· Commission or any other person or organisation

For a full copy of this Act please contact us.