Seeds Act, 1966 Section 2

1) "agriculture" includes horticulture;

(2) "Central Seed Laboratory" means the Central Seed Laboratory established or declared as such under sub-section (1) of section 4-, (3) "certification agency" means the certification agency established under section 8-or recognised under section 18-;

(4) "Committee" means the Central Seed Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 3-:

(5) "container" means a box, bottle, casket, tin, barrel, case, receptacle, sack, bag, wrapper or other thing in which any article or thing is placed or packed:

(6) "export" means taking out of India to a place outside India;

(7) "import" means bringing into India from a place outside India;

(8) "kind" means one or more related species or sub-species of crop plants each individually oi collectively known by one common name such as cabbage, maize, paddy and wheat;

(9) "notified kind or variety", in relation to any seed, means any kind or variety thereof notified under section 5-;

(10) "prescribed" means prescribed, by rules made under this Act;

(11) "seed" means any of the following classes of seeds used for sowing or planting :-

(i) seeds of food crops including edible oil-seeds and seeds of fruits and vegetables;

(ii) cotton seeds';

(iii) seeds of cattle fodder; 4[(iv) jute seeds]. and includes seedings, and tubers and bulbs, rhizomes, roots, cutting, all topes of grafts and other vegetatively propagated material, of food crops or cattle fodder;

(12) "Seed Analyst" means a Seed Analyst appointed under section 12-;

(13) "Seed Inspector" means a Seed Inspector appointed under section 13-;

(14) "State Government" in relation to a Union territory, means the administrator thereof;

(15) "State Seed Laboratory", in relation to any State, means the State Seed Laboratory established or declared as such under sub-section (2) of section 4-for that State; and (16) "variety" means a sub-division of a kind identifiable by growth, yield/plant, fruit, seed or other characteristic. Clause 2.- The Committee feel that the provisions relating to "breeder seed", "foundation seed", "hybrid". "registered seed, etc., which are matters of detail, need not be made in the bill. Accordingly the definitions of these terms in this clause have been omitted." - J.C.R.