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Salient features of Act: To constitute and appoint a Controller at the State level; To notify the seed testing laboratories; To curtail the supply of spurious or inferior quality of seed; To evolve an effective regulatory system which will enable effective quality assurance, supply, distribution and at fair price; To provide punishments in the event of violations of the provisions of the Act; To provide adequate mechanism to pay compensation to the farmers in the event of supply of inferior quality of cotton seed; To bring regulatory mechanism for regulation of trade of transgenic and genetically modified varieties by way of compulsory DNA Finger printing tests or genetic purity test. Mandatory registration of all types of cotton seed produced in the State or imported to the State. * * *