(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.