Power to prepare tables showing the cost of cultivating paddy, protecting, planting, and maintaining trees and plants.

(1) For the purpose of determining the amount of compensation to be awarded under this Act, the State Government may prepare tables for any local area showing all or any of the following matters: (a) the price of coconuts, arecanuts, oranges, cashewnuts, graft mangoes, tamarind, pepper and paddy; (b) the cost of- (i) cultivating and harvesting a crop of paddy; (ii) planting, protecting and maintaining a coconut tree, an arecanut tree, a jack tree, an orange tree, a cashewnut tree, a graft mango tree, a tamarind tree and a pepper vine until the tree or vine is in bearing; (iii) protecting and maintaining a coconut tree, an arecanut tree, a jack tree, an orange tree, a cashewnut tree, a graft mango tree, a tamarind tree and a pepper vine for one year when in bearing. (2) The tables prepared under this section shall on publication be receivable in evidence, and the rates and amounts therein specified shall be presumed to be the proper rates and amounts until the contrary is proved: Provided that, in so far as such tables prescribe prices of products, the presumption shall not be rebuttable except by proof of the average price as provided in section 16.