The Executive Engineer vs Doddakka on 6 August, 2014
10. From the aforesaid ratio enunciated by the
Hon'ble Courts, it is clear that there is no straight jacket
formula to determine the cost of cultivation while
arriving at the value of the fruit bearing trees. When the
market value is determined on the basis of the yield
from a tree or a plantation, the cost of cultivation which
includes the incidental expenses which the farmer is
required to incur to realize the price of the coconuts
would be just and appropriate at 30%, as held by this
court in the case of Doodakka, supra, more