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Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) “agriculture” includes horticulture, farming of medicinal plants, planting of crops and intercrops, fruit trees, vegetables, grass, fodder grass and trees or any kind of cultivation in soil, conducting nursery, breeding and keeping of livestock including fish, ornamental fish, mussel, oyster, bees, silk worm, poultry, duck, quail , goat, rabbit, cattle, pig and the use of land for agriculture allied activities or any other agricultural purposes; (b) "Board" means the Kerala Farmers' Welfare Fund Board constituted as per section 11; (c) "Chief Executive Officer" means the Chief Executive Officer appointed as per sub-section (1) of section 15; (d) "contribution" means the amount payable to the Fund as per section 8; 17 This is a digitally signed Gazette. Authenticity may be verified through https://compose.kerala.gov.in/ (e) “family” means,- (i) wife or husband of the farmer, their minor or differently abled children, adopted children, unmarried or widowed or divorced daughters and widows and minor children of deceased sons of farmer; (ii) parents of the farmer who are dependent on him; (f) "farmer" means a person who holds, whether as owner or licensee or mortgagee in possession or oral lessee or Government land lessee or kuthakapattakaran or partly in one capacity and partly in another, possession of land having an extent of not less than five cents and not exceeding fifteen acres and annual income does not exceed Rupees five lakhs and whose principal means of livelihood is agriculture for a period of not less than three years: Provided that Government may, on the recommendation of the Board, by notification in the Gazette, revise the limit of annual income: Provided further that for the purposes of this section, in the case of plantation crops such as rubber, coffee, tea and cardamom, those who possess more than seven and half acres of land in any way are not included in the definition of farmer; (g) “Fund” means the Kerala Farmers' Welfare Fund constituted as per section 3; (h) “ Government” means the Government of Kerala; (i) “Kissan Abhiman Scheme” means the scheme introduced as per G.O.(P) No.22/09/Agri. dated 31st January, 2009 for providing benefits for the paddy cultivators and for giving pension to them on their completion of sixty years of age and subsequently introduced for providing pension and other benefits to small scale and nominal farmers also, as per order number GO(MS)197/2011/Agri dated 16th August, 2011. (j) “member” means a member of the Fund ; (k) “ Notification' means notification published in the Official Gazette; (l) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules under this Act; (m) "Schedule" means the Schedule to this Act; (n) "Scheme" means the Kerala Farmers' Welfare Fund Scheme framed under this Act.