POULTRY CONTRACT FARMING AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
__________, of __________, mobile __________ (the "Company");
AND
__________, of __________, mobile __________ (the "Grower").
- 1. THE ARRANGEMENT
1.2 The chicks, the feed, the medicines and vaccines, and the birds at every stage, are and remain the Company's property. The Grower does not buy them, and has no right to sell, give, pledge or use them for any other purpose. The Grower is a grower of the Company's birds, not the Company's employee or partner.
1.3 The Company gets no right in the Grower's land or the Shed. It may enter the Shed only to place and lift birds, to deliver feed and medicine, and to inspect the birds, at reasonable times and with notice where it can be given.
- 2. WHAT THE COMPANY SUPPLIES
2.1 For each batch the Company shall supply healthy day-old chicks from a source it trusts, the feed the birds need at each stage, the medicines and vaccines, and the technical advice of its supervisor, who shall visit the Shed regularly.
2.2 The Company shall deliver the chicks and feed on the dates it tells the Grower, shall give a written note of the quantity of chicks and feed delivered for each batch, and shall lift the grown birds on the date it tells the Grower, within a day or two of the target age.
2.3 If the Company is late in lifting the birds, it shall pay for the extra feed and care of the extra days on a basis written in its schedule, and the Grower is not blamed for a poorer conversion caused by the delay.
- 3. WHAT THE GROWER SUPPLIES AND DOES
3.2 The Grower shall look after the birds with proper care, follow the Company's written rearing instructions and vaccination schedule, keep the Shed clean, dry and ventilated, keep a daily record of feed used, birds that die and medicine given, and show it to the Company's supervisor on request.
3.3 The Grower shall not bring other birds into the Shed, shall not sell or remove any bird, feed or medicine, shall dispose of dead birds in the safe way the law and the Company's instructions require, and shall tell the Company at once of any sickness, unusual deaths or loss of power or water.
3.4 The Grower shall obey every law and order for the time being in force on poultry, including any duty to report an outbreak of disease to the animal-husbandry authorities, and shall allow culling of birds if the authorities or a veterinarian require it.
- 4. GROWING CHARGE AND PAYMENT
- 5. LOSS OF BIRDS
5.1 The loss of birds by disease or death within the mortality norm, or caused by faulty chicks, feed or medicine supplied by the Company, or by an outbreak that is not due to the Grower's neglect, a natural calamity or an order of the authorities, is the Company's loss. The Grower shall not be charged for it, and the charge for the batch shall be worked out on the birds lifted.
5.2 The loss of birds, feed or medicine through the Grower's neglect, theft from the Shed, breaking the Company's instructions or selling or removing them is the Grower's loss, to the extent the Company proves it with the records, and may be set off against the charge only after the Grower has seen the proof and had seven days to answer.
- 6. ENDING THE CONTRACT
6.2 If one side seriously breaks this agreement and does not put it right within fifteen days of a written notice, the other may end it at once, still completing and paying for the batch in the Shed.
6.3 This agreement gives the Company no right to the Grower's land or Shed and gives the Grower no right to the birds, and at its end each side takes back what is its own.
- 7. DISPUTES
7.1 The parties shall first try to settle any dispute by talking, if they wish with the help of respected elders or the village panchayat.
- 8. GENERAL
8.1 This is the whole agreement between the parties. Any change must be in writing and signed by both. The Company has given the Grower a copy of its rearing instructions and its charge schedule before the first batch.
Signatures
Company: __________
Signature: ______________________________
Grower: __________
Signature: ______________________________
Witness 1 (name, address, signature): ______________________________
Witness 2 (name, address, signature): ______________________________