law: Seeds Act, 1966
  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 recognized 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;
  1[(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.