Duties of the license holder

Every licence holder/ nursery owner have duty to:- (i) propagate only such varieties of fruit plants, specified in the licence in respect of scion or root stocks, for production and sale, as may be directed by the Licensing Authority. (ii) keep complete records of origin of source of every root stack and scions showing, the botanical name together with local name, of the root stock, if any. (iii) keep mother block of the fruit plant and other plants, whose propagation is to be done through vegetative propagation, wherein same kind of varieties of plants shall be maintained under advanced management. (iv) vegetatively propagate only those plants and varieties for which he is having a mother tree and the maximum number of propagated plants in the nursery shall depend on the such variety / plant number in the mother block. (v) use latest approved techniques for plant propagation and follow the direction issued by the competent authority for this purpose. (vi) shall not mix the varieties/plants of propagated fruit plants. Therefore, the techniques are to be carefully followed during the propagation. (vii) keep the nursery site used for production of fruit plants and the mother trees free from insects and diseases. (viii) sale or distribute only those fruit plants which are free from any kind of insects and diseases. (ix) sale their planting materials subject to the contracts mentioned in the Act and prescribed provisions or by self declaration only.