G/AG/N/MUS/19  
 
23 November  2022 
(22-8733) Page: 1/8 
Committee on Agriculture  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated 10 November  2022, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of  Mauritius . The notification concerns domestic support commitments ( Table DS:1 and 
the relevant supporting tables) for the Financial Year 2021/2022 . 
 
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- 2 - Table DS:1  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: MAURITIUS  
REPORTING PERIOD: FINANCIAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2021 TO 30 -06-2022  
Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Total AMS commitment level  Currency  Current Total AMS  
(from Section I of Part IV of the Schedule)  (from Section I of Part IV of the Schedul e)  (from attached Supporting Tables)  
1  2  3  
  0 
General Note:  
 In accordance with the notification requirements (paragraph (ii), page 11 of document G/AG/2), Mauritius notifies that domest ic support to agricultural producers during 
the financial year 2021 -2022 was provided through the operations of the Ministry of Agr o-Industry & Food Security(MAIFS). All such support is covered by the domestic 
support categories, which are exempt from reduction commitments under the Agreement on Agriculture. The attached Supporting T ables DS:1; DS:2; DS:4; and DS:9 
provide details of these exempt measures.  
   
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- 3 - Supporting Table DS:1  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: MAURITIUS  
REPORTING PERIOD: FINANCIAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2021 TO 30 -06-2022  
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment - "Green Box"  
Measure Type  Name and description of measure with refe rence to criteria in 
Annex 2  Monetary value  
 
MUR   Data Sources  Note  
1 2 3 4  
2.General Services      
2 (a). Research  Food Agricultural Research Extension Institute  404,100,000  Budget 2021/2022 
(MAIFS)  (1) 
Subtotal:  404,100,000    
2 (b). Pest and disease control  Agricultural Services in the field of Animal Production, Horticulture, Plant 
Protection, Veterinary Services, Agronomy, FTL, Agricultural Information 
Division  378,200,000  Budget 2021/2022 
(MAIFS)  (2) 
Slaughtering of Animals (Mauritius Meat Authority)  18,000,000  Budget 2021/2022 
(MAIFS)   
Subtotal:  396,200,000    
2 (d). Extension and advisory services  Small Farmers Welfare Fund  17,500,000  Budget 2021/2022 
(MAIFS)  (3) 
Subtotal:  17,500,000    
2 (g). Infrastructural services  Irrigation Services  180,700,000  Budget 2021/2022 
(MAIFS)   
Subtotal:  180,700,000    
2 (h). Other general services  Sugar Service Providing Institutions  411,500,000  Budget 2021/2022 
(MAIFS)   
Subtotal:  411,500,000    
 Subtotal General Services  1,410,000,000    
Grand Total Green Box  1,410,000,000    
 
Notes:  
 
(1) Refer to Transfers to FAREI.  
(2) Compensation of Employees – 14-103, 14 -104.  
(3) SFWF: 26313.  
   
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- 4 - Supporting Table DS:2  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: MAURITIUS  
REPORTING PERIOD: FINANCIAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2021 TO 30 -06-2022  
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment – Special and Differential Treatment – "Development Programmes"  
Measure Type  Name and description of measure with re ference to 
criteria in Article 6.2  Monetary value  
 
MUR   Data Sources  Note  
1 2 3 4  
(a) Investment subsidies generally available to agriculture  Subsidized Loans Disbursed through DBM  1,928,739  Development Bank of 
Mauritius(DBM)   
Subtotal:  1,928,739    
(b) Input subsidies available to low -income or resource -poor producers  Incentives for livestock (Animal feed)  20,000,000  Budget 2021/2022   
Fertilizer Scheme  63,000,000  Budget 2021/2022   
Incentive for product ion of strategic crop  6,000,000  Budget 2021/2022   
Subtotal:  89,000,000    
Grand Total Development Programmes  90,928,739    
 
   
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- 5 - Supporting Table DS:4  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: MAURITIUS  
REPORTING PERIOD: FINANCIAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2021 TO 30 -06-2022  
Calculation of the Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Description of basic products (including 
non-product specific AMS)  
 
 Product specific 
AMS (from ST DS:5 
to DS:7)  
 
MUR   Prod uct-specific 
EMS (from ST DS:8)  
 
 
MUR   Total  
(2 + 3)  
 
 
MUR   Value of production  
 
 
 
MUR   Support as a 
% of value of 
production  
 Current Total AMS  
 
 
 
MUR   Note  
 
1 2 3    4  
Sugar  351,100,000  351,100,000 7,650,900,000  4.6% 0 (de minimis )  
Fruit growers (Bat net scheme)  10,000,000  10,000,000 8,390,900,000  0.1%  0 (de minimis )  
Crop (Seeds AMB)  6,000,000  6,000,000 8,390,900,000  0.0%  0 (de minimis )  
Livestock support (Specific Livestock 
Schemes)  16,000,000  16,000,000 6,249,100,000  0.3% 0 (de minimis ) (1) 
Tea Support Scheme (Tea Plantlets)  5,000,000  5,000,000 8,390,900,000  0.1% 0 (de minimis ) (2) 
Non-product -specific AMS(from ST/DS:9)  74,000,000 39,072,700,000  0.2% 0 (de minimis )  
TOTAL  0  
General Note:  
Based on Agriculture Statistics  
Notes:  
(1) Livestock support (Specific Livestock Schemes): Purchase of Animals (Cattle, Goat/Sheep,), Calf productivity, Poultry, Bee Ke eping.  
(2) Tea Support Scheme: Purchase of Plantlets.  
   
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- 6 - Supporting Table DS:6  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: MAURITIUS  
REPORTING PERIOD: FINANCIAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2021 TO 30 -06-2022  
Product -Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support: Non -Exempt Direct Payments  
Description 
of basic 
products  Reporting Year  Measure Types  Applied 
administered 
price 
 
 
 
MUR  External 
reference 
price 
(generally 
from AGST)  
 
MUR  Eligible 
production  Total price 
related direct 
payments 
((4-5)*6)  
 
 
MUR   Other non 
exempt 
direct 
payments  
 
 
MUR   Associated 
fees / levies  
 
 
 
 
MUR   Total direct 
payment 
(7+8 -9) 
 
 
 
MUR   Data 
Sources  Note  
Type  From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  
Sugar  FNY 01-07-21 30-06-22 Money grant      351,100,000   351,100,000  Budget 
MAIFS   
Total Sugar            351,100,000    
Fruit growers 
(Bat net 
scheme)  FNY 01-07-21 30-06-22 Money grant      10,000,000   10,000,000  Budget 
MAIFS   
Total Fruit 
growers 
(Bat net 
scheme)            10,000,000    
Crop (Seeds 
AMB)  FNY 01-07-21 30-06-22 Money grant      6,000,000   6,000,000  Budget 
MAIFS   
Total Crop 
(Seeds 
AMB)            6,000,000    
Livestock 
support 
(Specific 
Livestock 
Schemes)  FNY 01-07-21 30-06-22 Money grant      11,000,000   11,000,000  Budget 
MAIFS  (1 ) 
Bee Support 
Scheme  FNY 01-07-21 30-06-22 Money Grant      5,000,000   5,000,000    
Total 
Livestock 
support 
(Specific 
Livestock 
Schemes)            16,000,000     
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- 7 - Description 
of basic 
products  Reporting Year  Measure Types  Applied 
administered 
price 
 
 
 
MUR  External 
reference 
price 
(generally 
from AGST)  
 
MUR  Eligible 
production  Total price 
related direct 
payments 
((4-5)*6)  
 
 
MUR   Other non 
exempt 
direct 
payments  
 
 
MUR   Associated 
fees / levies  
 
 
 
 
MUR   Total direct 
payment 
(7+8 -9) 
 
 
 
MUR   Data 
Sources  Note  
Type  From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  
Tea Support 
Scheme (Tea 
Plantlets)  FNY 01-07-21 30-06-22 Money grant      5,000,000   5,000,000  Budget 
MAIFS   
Total Tea 
Support 
Scheme 
(Tea 
Plantlets)            5,000,000    
Note:  
(1) cattle, breeder, poultry, calf, goat/sheep  
   
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- 8 - Supporting Table DS:9  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: MAURITIUS  
REPORTING PERIOD: FINANCIAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2021 TO 30 -06-2022  
Non-Product -Specific AMS  
Measure Types  Reporting Year  Non-product -
specific 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
MUR   Other non -
product specific 
support (include 
calculation 
details)  
 
MUR   Associated 
fees / levies  
 
 
 
MUR   Total non -
product -specific 
support  
(3+4 -5) 
 
 
MUR   Data Sources  Note  
Type  From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7  
CCTV camera  FNY 01-07-21 30-06-22 1,000,000    1,000,000  Budget MAIFS   
Compost Crop producers  FNY 01-07-21 30-06-22 1,000,000    1,000,000  Budget MAIFS   
Development of Household Micro Gardens  FNY 01-07-21 30-06-22 5,000,000    5,000,000  Budget MAIFS   
Crop Loss Compensation Scheme  FNY 01-07-21 30-06-22 16,000,000    16,000,000  Budget MAIFS   
Land preparation support scheme  FNY 01-07-21 30-06-22 5,000,000    5,000,000  Budget MAIFS   
Rainwater Harvesting  FNY 01-07-21 30-06-22 1,000,000    1,000,000  Budget MAIFS   
Pasture Development  FNY 01-07-21 30-06-22 1,000,000    1,000,000  Budget MAIFS   
Scheme for Purchase of Equipment  FNY 01-07-21 30-06-22 14,000,000    14,000,000  Budget MAIFS   
Shetered Farming  FNY 01-07-21 30-06-22 30,000,000    30,000,000  Budget MAIFS   
TOTAL  74,000,000   
 
 
 
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