Collector to publish list of prices

(1) The Collector of the district shall publish in the month of January, April, July and October every year in the District Gazette the average market price during the immediately preceding three months at the headquarters of each taluk of the main crops of the district. (2) Where, for the payment of fair rent by a cultivating tenant to whom the provisions of this Act apply, the cash value of any crop has to be fixed, such value shall be fixed- (a) in the case of any of the crops referred to in sub-section (1), the market price at the taluk headquarters last published under sub-section (1) before the date when such fair rent became payable; (b) in the case of any other crop as may be agreed upon between the landowner and the cultivating tenant and in the case of disagreement, as may be deemed fair and reasonable by the Rent Court.