Definitions

Definitions.--In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context--

1. (a) "Director of Agriculture" means Director of Agriculture, Jammu and Kashmir State;
2. (b) "export" means taking out from the area of the State in which this Act is in force to any place outside the area;
3. (c) "foreign matter" means foreign seeds and any matter other than the vegetable seeds;
4. (d) "foreign seeds" means seeds not of the type, variety and kind of the vegetable seed in which such seeds are contained;
5. (e) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
6. (f) "registered seed dealer" means a seed dealer registered by the Director of Agriculture in the prescribed manner;
7. (g) "registered seed farm" means a seed farm registered by the Director of Agriculture in the prescribed manner;
8. (h) "registered seed grower" means a seed grower registered by the Director of Agriculture in the prescribed manner;
   • (i) "seed dealer" means a person engaged in or carrying out trade in vegetable seeds;
9. (j) "seed farm" means an area of agricultural land kept and fit for production of vegetable seeds;
10. (k) "seed grower" means a person who is engaged in production of vegetable seeds; and
11. (l) "standard quality" means the quality which vegetable seeds possess in respect of their viability, germination period, performance, weight and their being free from foreign matter and foreign seed.