In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(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, gasket, 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 or 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)seed of food crops including edible oil seeds and seeds of fruits and vegetables;
(ii)cotton seeds;
(iii)seeds of cattle fodder;
2[(iv) jute seeds,]
and includes seedlings, and tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, roots, cuttings, all types 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.