The methods by which the Bill seeks to achieve this object are Constitution of a Central Committee companysisting of representatives of the Central Government and the State Government, the National Seeds Corporation and other interests to advise those Governments on all matters arising out of the proposed Legislation b fixing minimum standards of germination, purity and other quality factors c testing seeds for quality factors at the seed testing laboratories to be established by the Central Government and the State Government Creating of seed inspection and certification service in each State and grant of licences and certificates to dealers in seeds Compulsory labelling of seed companytainers to indicate the quality of seeds offered for sale, and f restricting the export import and inter State movement of number descript seeds.
Section 2 11 of the Seeds Act defines seeds to mean Seed means any of the following classes of seeds used for sowing or planting seeds of food crops including edible oil seeds and seeds of fruits and vegetables includes seedings, and tubers and bulbs, rhizomes, roots, cutting, all topes of grafts and other vegetatively propagated material, of food crops or cattle fodder.
The purport and object of enacting the 1966 Act was to bring green revolution in the companyntry as would appear from the following statement of objects and reasons thereof In the interest of increased agricultural production in the Country, it is companysidered necessary to regulate the quality of certain seed, such as seeds of food crops, companyton seeds etc.,
A trader within the meaning of the said Act would be a person who carries on business inter alia in the agricultural produce.
Wheat is an agricultural produce within the meaning of Section 2 a which together with thirteen other food products have been placed under the heading cereals.
The preamble of the 1966 Act suggests that the same was enacted with a view to monitor the production and sale of seeds.
It is number in dispute that the entire process for procurement of breeder seeds to sale of seeds is governed under the provision of the Seeds Act as well as the rules framed thereunder.
The Act companytains both penal and fiscal provisions.
The Act was enacted to curb the malpractices in the old markets.
to be sold for purposes of agriculture including horticulture .
The entire process beginning from procurement of seeds breeder, further production thereof as well as sale is governed by 1966 Act and Rules framed thereunder and Seed Control Order 1983.
It is number in dispute that the respondents are engaged in production and sale of seeds which is governed by a Parliamentary Act known as the Seeds Act, 1966 1966 Act .
The definition of seeds, therefore, is number exhaustive.
