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Home Dictionary Name: agricultureAgricultural Marketing Acts, 1931 to 1933
Agricultural Marketing Acts, 1931 to 1933 (English), The Act of 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 42) enables schemes to be made for regulating the marketing of agricultural products, foods and drinks made or derived therefrom, and fleeces and skins of animals, to establish marketing boards in connection with such schemes, to establish funds for loans to these boards, and to encourage agricultural co-operation, research and education. The Act of 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 31) amends and extends the 1931 Act by provisions for restrictions on the importation and sale of agricultural products and for the production of such secondary agricultural products wholly or partly manufactured or derived from another agricultural products as may be specified by an order in force under s. 7, Part II., of the Act of 1933. Schemes under the Act of 1931 may be submitted by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries after consultation with the Board of Trade by laying a draft before each House of Parliament, and if...
Agricultural produce
Agricultural produce, Sugar is 'Agricultural Produce', Kishan Lal v. State of Rajasthan, 1990 Supp SCC 742 (745): AIR 1990 SC 2569. [Rajasthan Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961 (38 of 1961), s. 2(1) (i)]The term 'agricultural produce' according to its definition contained under s. 2(a) of the Act means all produce, whether processed or not, of agricultural, horticulture, animal husbandry or forest as specified in the Schedule to the Act. Sheep-hair is consequently an agricultural produce within the meaning of the Act so that the various provisions therein with regard to agricultural produce are applicable to sheep-hair also, Modanlal Manoharlal v. State of Haryana, (1990) 1 SCC 184: AIR 1990 SC 556 (559). [Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961 (23 of 1961) s. 2(a)]See also Belsund Sugar Co. Ltd. v. State of Bihar, (1999) 9 SCC 620: AIR 1999 SC 3125. [Bihar Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1960 (16 of 1960) ss. 2(1)(a), 27 and 15]Agricultural produce includes food stuffs b...
Agriculture
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 othe...
Agriculture and Fisheries, Ministry of
Agriculture and Fisheries, Ministry of (English). The Board of Agriculture, created by the Board of Agriculture Act, 1889, to take over the powers of the Privy Council as to the diseases of animals, and of the Land Commissioners under the Copyhold, Inclosure and Tithe Acts, etc., had transferred to it by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Act, 1903, the powers of the Board of Trade under the Salmon Fishery Act, 1861, the Sea Fisheries Regulations Act, 1868, and other Fishery Acts, and took the style of 'The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.' There is power to appoint two secretaries, who can sit and vote in the House of Commons. The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act, 1919, replaced the Board and its President by a Minister and Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. The Board had in fact never met, but its opinions had been those of its permanent officials and of its President. See Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Act, 1909, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act,...
Agricultural Credits Acts, 1923 and 1928
Agricultural Credits Acts, 1923 and 1928 (English) The 1923 Act to facilitate the advance of money and granting of credit for agricultural purposes and to amend the Improvement of Land Act, 1864. The Public Works Loans Commissioners are empowered to lend to associations money to be advanced upon mortgage to certain persons for the purpose of buying land for agricultural purposes. See the Act and the Agricultural Credits (Approved Associations) Regulations, 1923, and the Agricultural Credits (Advances to Credit Societies) Regulations, 1923. Under the Agricultural Credits Acts, 1928 and 1932, an agricultural loan company has been established for making long term loans, and also for short-term loans which may be charged on farming stock....
Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923
Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (English) (13 & 14 Geo. 5, cc. 9 and 25). By a series of statutes commencing with the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1875, statutory compensation has been provided for an outgoing agricultural tenant in respect of the improvements effected by him during his tenancy. The operation of this Act could be and frequently was excluded by agreement, but now the tenant cannot deprive himself by contract of the right to claim compensation which is conferred on him by the Act, although he may within limits substitute other benefits by agreement. The Act of 1923 (as amended by the Agricultural Holdings Amendment Act, 1923) repeals and consolidates all the earlier statutes dealing with the subject, and confers on outgoing tenants of 'holdings' the rights and benefits briefly outlined below. The term 'holding' means any parcel of land held by a tenant which is wholly agricultural or wholly pastoral, or in whole or in part cultivated as a market garden, and which is not le...
Agricultural land
Agricultural land, 'means any land used as arable, meadow, or pasture ground only, cottage gardens exceeding one quarter of an acre, market gardens, nursery grounds, orchards or allotments, but doe not include land occupied together with a house as a park, gardens other than as aforesaid, pleasure grounds, or any land kept or preserved mainly or exclusively for purposes of sport or recreation, or land used as a racecourse.'-Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, s. 9. Compare definition of 'agriculture' in Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, s. 61, as including 'horticulture, forestry and the use of land for any purpose of husbandry, inclusive of keeping or breeding of live stock, poultry or bees, and the growth of fruit, vegetables and the like.'Unless there was evidence that forest lands had been, in some way set apart or earmarked for or linked up with an agricultural purpose, by their owners or occupiers, it could not be held that they are agricultural lands, Controller of Estate duty ...
Agricultural rates
Agricultural rates, The (English) Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, as amended by the (English) Agricultural Rates Act, 1923, provides that the occupier (including the owner if rated in place of the occupier) of agricultural land shall be liable to one quarter only of the rate in the pound payable in respect of buildings and other hereditaments. These exemptions were preserved by the (English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, s. 22, but agricultural land and buildings are now entirely derated, see the (English) Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, and the Local Government Act, 1929, s. 67....
Agriculture and agricultural crop
Agriculture and agricultural crop, the terms 'agriculture' and 'agricultural crop' have wider as well as narrower connotation. The wider concept covers both the primary or basic as well as the subsequent operations. It takes within its fold among other things, the products of the land which have some utility either for consumption or for trade and commerce including forest products such as timber, sal and piyasal trees, casuarina plantations, tendu leaves, horranuts etc., Gwalior Rayons silk Mfg (Wvg) Co. Ltd v. Custodian of Vested Forests, 1990 Supp SCC 785 (789): AIR 1990 SC 1747. [Kerala Private Forests (vesting and Assignment), Act, 1971 (26 of 1971)]...
Salami/Agricultural income
Salami/Agricultural income, 'salami' is a compulsory payment by the tenant to the landlord at the inception of the tenancy. It is really a payment by the tenant to the landlord for being allowed to tale possession of the land for cultivation under the lease. Salami is not rent and it could not be called revenue within the meaning of the word used in the definition of agricultural income under s. 2(1)(a) of the Assam Agricultural Income Tax Act, 1939 because it was a payment to the landlord by the tenant as a consideration for the transfer of a right in zamindari lands owned by the landlord. It has all the characteristics of a capital payment and is not revenue, Member for the Board of Agricultural Income Tax v. Sindhurani Chaudhurani, AIR 1957 SC 729 (733): (1957) SCR 1019. [Assam Agricultural Income-tax, 1939, s. 2(a)(i)...
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