In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) “agricultural land” means land which is used or is capable of being used for agriculture and allied activities including fallow land.
(b) “crop year” means the year as specified by the State Government;
(c) “agriculture and allied activities “shall mean raising of crops including food and non-food crops, fodder or grass; fruits and vegetables, flowers, any other horticultural crops and plantation; animal husbandry and dairy; livestock and livestock products, poultry farming, stock breeding; fishery; sericulture, growing of bamboo, agro forestry, agro-processing and other related activities by farmers and farmer groups;
(d) “Competent Authority” means the District Agriculture Officer or Revenue Officer
(e) “Government” means the State Government of Mizoram;
(f) “lease” means a contract between the Land owner - Lessor and the Lessee Cultivator by which the Land owner - Lessor conveys use of his/her agricultural land to the Lessee cultivator for agriculture and allied activities for a specified period for a consideration based on an agreement with terms and conditions mutually agreed by the Land owner - Lessor and the Lessee Cultivator;
(g) “lessee cultivator” means a person belonging to Scheduled Tribe or a registered group of cultivators (self-help group, joint liability group, farmer Producer Organization (FPO)/ Company (FPC), etc.) formed and owned by person belonging to Scheduled Tribe who leases in the agricultural land for the purpose of agriculture and allied activities against a consideration in cash or kind or a share of produce payable to the Land owner - Lessor as per the lease agreement;
(h) “land owner lessor” means a person who owns agricultural land outside notified town area on the strength of LSC issued by Land Revenue & Settlement Department, Govt. of Mizoram or document of land ownership issued by the Competent authority and has leased out that land to a lessee cultivator, under mutually agreed terms and conditions;
(i) “leasing in” means the use of agricultural land by a Lessee Cultivator for a consideration which could be in cash or kind or share of produce;
(j) “leasing out” means the leasing of land by a Land owner - Lessor to a Lessee Cultivator for an agreed lease period for a consideration which could be in cash or kind or share of produce;
(k) “farmer” includes a person who owns and cultivates land himself/herself as well as a person who may or may not own land but cultivates land leased in from others;
(1) “farmer groups” includes self-help groups, joint liability groups, Farmer Producers Organizations (FPOs) formed and owned by person belonging to Scheduled Tribe and the like.
CHAPTER-II LAND LEASE - AGREEMENT, TERMINATION, RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
3. Agriculture Land leasing under this Act.
Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law in force, on and from the commencement of this Act, every person intending to lease in or lease out agricultural land for agriculture and allied activities shall be entitled to enter into a written lease agreement on mutually agreed terms and conditions, consistent with the terms of this Act.