Objects of the Association

The objects of the Association shall be18 (a) to promote, foster and encourage the development of the banana industry and the (b) to establish and operate packing plants and install other machinery when necessary; (c) to prepare and settle contracts for the sale and (d) to assist in settling disputes between members and labour, and between members inter se; (e) to act as agents for members or any of them in any matter within the scope or objects of the Association and to undertake and execute any trusts or any agency business which may seem directly or indirectly conducive to the (f) to purchase all fruits from members at pre- determined collection points; (g) to make representations to the Board on any matter affecting the interest of members; (h) to buy and sell and deal in fertilizers and agricultural implements and supplies if and when it may be deemed necessary to do so for the benefit of members; (i) to invest and deal with the moneys of the Association in such manner as may from time to time be determined by the Committee and to pay all costs, charges and expenses that may be incurred by the Association at any time; 19 (j) to establish and support and to aid in the establishment and support of any other association and to become members of any such association in this country or elsewhere formed for all or any of the objects of this (k) to endeavour to obtain for and to extend financial aid to such members who may require aid in the carrying on of cultivations; (l) to borrow or raise or secure the payment of money for the purposes of the business of the (m) generally to do all such acts, matters and things as it may appear to the Committee to be conducive to the attainment of the above aims and objects or any of them.