Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.31, Agriculture and Cooperation (Horti & Seri) Department, dated 22.12.2014. Plant material to be utilized for propagation. [Act No.13 of 2010] 9 (d) the nurseryman shall maintain the register in such form as may be prescribed wherein the performance of the progeny trees shall be recorded along with number of plants raised and number of plants ready for sale; (e) the competent authority may declare mother trees as unfit for use, if he is satisfied that use of such plant material shall affect the interest of Horticulture on account of the following reasons,- (i) poor quality of horticulture product; (ii) poor bearing capacity; (iii) infected with insects, pests and disease which cannot be cured; (iv) horticulture plants of unknown pedigree; (v) any other reasons which may be considered fit by the competent authority in the interest of horticulture; (f) the nurseryman shall quarantine all trees and shall not use their budwood for further propagation in any case should there be a danger of the spread of the insects, pests and diseases to other nurseries and nursery plants and such infected trees may be ordered by the competent authority to be destroyed and the nursery shall carry out those orders. Such orders shall also be applicable to the supply of planting material.