(a) The commissioner is hereby authorized to contract with any person or persons, including the New York Apple Association, Inc., to provide for informational services designed to keep producers informed on apple crop, pack, storage holdings, marketing and product research, promotion, advertising and publicity programs and any other apple industry information deemed important to producers, and to expend such monies as may be available and required to obtain and disseminate such information.

(b) To facilitate factual and accurate informational services and to provide a basis for budget estimation and adjustment as required in section 201.10 of this order hereinafter specified during each marketing season not later than December 1st each apple grower shall file with the commissioner each year, on forms prescribed and supplied by him a declaration of harvested crop which shall declare the number of bushels or pounds of apples harvested and the disposition of same to processors and/or cold storage and/or other sales or shipments.