Section 2. Definitions

2. Definitions.— 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;