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Agriculture, the term 'agriculture' has been defined in various dictionaries both in the narrow sense and in the wider sense. In the narrow sense agriculture is cultivation of the field. In the wider sense it comprises all activities in relation to land including horticulture, forestry, breeding and rearing of livestock, dairying, butter and cheese-making, husbandry, etc. Whether the narrower or the wider sense of the term 'agriculture' should be adopted in a particular case depends not only upon the provisions of the various statutes in which the same occurs but also upon the facts and circumstances of each case, Maheshwari Seed Farm v. T.N. Electricity Board, (2004) 4 SCC 705 (711): AIR 2004 SC 2341.

Agriculture includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming and livestock breeding and keeping, the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, market gardens and nursery grounds, and the use of land for woodlands where that use is ancillary to the framing of land for other agricultural purposes, 'agriculture' being construed accordingly, and 'livestock' includes any creature kept for the production of food, wool, skin or for, use in, the farming of land, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, 4th Edn., Para 3, Note 2, p. 4.

Agriculture, is defined, though not exhaustively, as including horticulture, fruit growing, dairy farming and livestock breeding and keeping the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, osier land, market gardens and nursery grounds and the use of land for woodlands where that use is ancillary to the farming of the land for other agricultural purposes. Halsbury's Laws of Engalnd, Vol. 1(2), 4th Edn., Para 302, p. 147.

Agriculture include dairy-farming, the production of any consumable produce which is grown for sale or for consumption or for other use for the purposes of a trade or business or of any other undertaking whether carried on for profit or not and the use of land as grazing, meadow or pasture land or orchard, osier land or woodland or for market gardens or nursery grounds, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 408, Note 1, p. 251.