(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 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) seeds of food crops including edible oil-seeds and seeds of fruits and vegetables;
(ii) cotton seeds;
(iii) seeds of cattle fodder;
(iv) [ jute seeds], and includes seedlings, and tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, roots, cutting, 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.