In this Act, unless the context otherwise required-
(a) "Board" means the Meghalaya Commercial Crops Development Board constituted under sub-section (1) of section 3;
(b) "Chief Executive Officer" means the Chief Executive Officer of the Board Appointed under sub-section (1) of Section 5;
(c) "commercial crops" include potatoes "and tapioca" for processing broom stick, tezpatta, cotton, rubber, tea, coffee, cashewnut, black pepper, ginger, turmeric, betel leaf, arecanut citrus fruits, "temperatan fruits edible bamboo medicinal or aromatic plants and any crops as the State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette specify;"
(d) "Commodity Board" means the Coffee Board, the Tea Board, the Rubber Board or as the case may be, Spices Board set up by the Central Government;
(e) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules or, as the case may be, by regulations;
(f) "regulations" means regulations made by the Board under this Act;
(g) "rules" means rules made by the State Government under this Act;
(h) "section" means a section of this Act;
(i) "State" means the State of Meghalaya; and
(j) "State Government" means the Government of the State of Meghalaya