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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires (a) agriculture and agricultural purpose includes making land fit for cultivation, cultivation of land, Improvement of land (including development of sources of irrigation), raising and harvesting of crops, horticulture, forestry, cattle breeding, animal husbandry, dairy farming, piggery, poultry farming, seed farming, pisciculture, apiculture, sericulture and such other activities as are generally carried on by persons engaged in any of the aforementioned activities and also includes (i) marketing of agricultural products, their storage and transport ; (i) marketing of agricultural products, their storage and transport ; (ii) the acquisition of implements and machinery in connection with any such activity ; (iii) the acquisition of gobar-gas plants ; and (vi) the establishment and maintenance of agro-service center; Provided that the construction of a house for personal use in rural area on abadi land or the repair, modernization or extension thereof and purchase, storage and acquisition of nonconventional or alternate energy plant and machinery or matters connected therewith shall be deemed to be an agricultural purpose for the purposes of this Act. Explanation : For the purpose of this clause, the expression agro-service center means a place or a shop where the entrepreneurs, trained by the U. P. State Agro-Industrial Corporation Limited, carry on the sale of seeds, fertilizers, insecticides, pesticide or other goods of agricultural use or agricultural operations in respect of land hed by others by tractors or other mechanized process on hire or repair of the agricultural implements ; (b) agriculturist means a person who is engaged in agriculture ; (c) bank means (i) a banking company, as defined in the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 ; (ii) the State Bank of India constituted under the state Bank of India Act, 1955 ; (iii) a subsidiary Bank, as defined in the State Bank of India (Subsidiary Banks) Act, 1959 ; (iv) a corresponding new Bank constituted under the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) (v) a financing bank or Central Bank (as defined in the Uttar Pradesh Co-operative Societies Act, 1965) not being a land development bank; (vi) the Agricultural Refinance Corporation constituted under the Agricultural Refinance Corporation Act, 1963 ; (vii) the U. P. Act State Agro-Industrial Corporation Limited a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956. (viii) the Agricultural Finance Corporation Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Act,1956 ; and viii-a a regional rural bank established under sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976 (ix) any other financial institution notified by the State Government in the Gazette as a bank for the purpose of this Act ; (d) Co-operative Society means a Co-operative society registered or deemed to be registered under the Uttar Pradesh Co-operative Societies act, 1965, the object of which is to provide financial assistance to its members, and includes a cooperative land development bank ; (e) financial assistance means assistance granted, whether before or after the commencement of this Act1 by way of loan, advance, guarantee or otherwise (i) either to an agriculturist for agricultural purposes or (ii) to a Co-operative society for enabling it to grant loans and advances to its members for agricultural purposes ; (f) law relating to land tenures means the Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950, the Uttar Pradesh Urban Areas and Land Reforms act, 1956, the Jaunsar Bawar Zamindari abolition and Land Reforms act, 1956, the Kumaun and Uttarakhand Zamindari abolition and Land Reforms act, 1960, the Uttar Pradesh Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1953 or the U.P. Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1960, as amended from time to time ; (g) Prescribed means prescribed by rules made under this Act.