Definitions

Definitions.

1. (1) "improvement" means any work which adds to the letting value of land and includes the following, namely :-
   • (a) the construction of wells, tanks and other works for the storage, supply or distribution of water for the purpose of agriculture, or for the use of men and cattle employed in agriculture ;
   • (b) the preparation of land for irrigation ;
   • (c) the drainage, reclamation from rivers or other waters, or protection from floods or from erosion or other damage by water, of land used for agricultural purposes or waste-land which is culturable ;
   • (d) the reclamation, clearance, enclosure or permanent improvement of land for agricultural purposes ;
   • (e) the planting of trees for agricultural purposes and construction of cattle sheds ;
   • (f) installation of plant, machinery and improved farm implements with a view to adopting modern methods of agriculture and for developing agricultural industry ;
   • (g) the renewal or reconstruction of any of the foregoing works, or alterations therein or additions thereto ;
   • (h) such other works as the Government may, by notification in the Government Gazette, declare to be improvements for the purposes of this Act ;
2. (2) "distress" means any extraordinary natural or other calamity affecting agricultural operations or resources, such as the failure or destruction of crops or damage to articles of husbandry or cattle by draughts, frost, rust, floods, cloud-burst, hail, blight, locusts, fire or by disease or other physical visitations ;
3. (3) by the term 'Agriculturists' is meant a person who is a member of an Agricultural class under the Jammu and Kashmir Alienation of Land Act, V of 1995, and also includes for the purpose of this Act a person who ordinarily resides in a village as defined in the Jammu and Kashmir Village Panchayat Act, 1958.