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, gasket, 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 or 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) seed of food crops including edible oil seeds and seeds of fruits and vegetables;
             (ii) cotton seeds;
             (iii) seeds of cattle fodder;
             ²[(iv) jute seeds,] and includes seedlings, and tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, roots, cuttings, all types of grafts and other vegetatively propagated material, of food crops or cattle fodder;
         (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.