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Bureau, Council and Sugar Industry Reserve Fund (SIRF)
The Bureau
The Mauritius Chamber of Agriculture is administered by a Bureau of seven members elected at the Annual General Meeting. The Bureau is at the core of the Chamber’s activities and is composed of a President, two vice – presidents and four members.
The rules of the Chamber were amended in 1972 in order to increase the level of representation of planters, of planters’ associations and of non-sugar interests on the Bureau. Hence, it is agreed that three out of the seven Bureau seats are allotted to representatives of planters.
Tradition has it that former presidents are invited to attend Bureau meetings to ensure continuity in the administration of the Chamber. The Directors of sister-institutions are also invited to attend Bureau meetings in order to co-ordinate more effectively the actions of the sugar industry.
The composition of the Bureau for 2019-2020 is as follows:
President
Sébastien Lavoipierre
1st Vice-President
Jean-Raymond Hardy
2nd Vice- President
Jérôme Jaen
Members
Michel Pilot
Vhinaye G. Dookhony
Ashveenee K. Ramnarain
Philippe Rivalland
The Council
The President and the members of the Bureau are automatically members of the Council of the Chamber of Agriculture, which is composed of twenty-four members. Its functions are to decide on any question, which may be referred to it by the Bureau, and to settle any dispute between the Chamber and anyone of its members or any other person who makes a claim through any member.
The composition of the Council for 2019-2020 is as follows:
(a) Members of The Bureau 2019-2020
President
Sébastien Lavoipierre
1st Vice-President
Jean-Raymond Hardy
2nd Vice- President
Jérôme Jaen
Members
Michel Pilot
Vhinaye G. Dookhony
Ashveenee K. Ramnarain
Philippe Rivalland
(b) Members 2019-2020 by rotation
2020
Arun Khumar Bholah
Dominique Chelin
P. Arnaud Dalais
Arnaud d’Unienville
Didier Charoux
Jean François Lagesse
Amal Mungur
Jean Ribet
2021
Jacques d’Unienville
Hector Espitalier-Noël
Rajesswar Goorah
Antoine Louis Harel
Arnaud Lagesse
Nicolas Maigrot
Michael T. Rountree
Thierry Sauzier
2022
François Audibert
Patrick de L. d’Arifat
Patrick Lagesse
Sailesh Chunen
Patrick Huet
Jérôme de Chasteauneuf
Thierry Merven
Hansraj Ruhee
The Sugar Industry Reserve Fund (SIRF)
Constituted by an Act of Parliament, the SIRF is funded by a levy on the exports of sugar and aims, amongst others, to subsidise and encourage experimental installations in cane plantations and defray any expenses that the Committee may consider beneficial to the sugar industry of Mauritius.
The members of the SIRF for 2019/2020 as are follows:
President (ex Officio)
The President of the Chamber
Members
François Audibert
Michel Pilot
André Bonieux
Vhinaye G. Dookhony
Philippe Rivalland
Jérôme Jaen
Ashveenee K. Ramnarain
Jean-Raymond Hardy
Thierry Sauzier
Sébastien Mamet
Thierry Merven
Jean Ribet
Nicolas Maigrot
Didier Charoux