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, 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 of 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; and includes seedlings, and tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, roots, cuttings, all types of grafts and other vegetatively propagated material of, food crops or cattle fodder; (iv) jute seeds, (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. | 
