(1) Plant material to be utilised for propagation will be only for which licence has been granted.
(2) The scion variety and rootstock to be propagated in the nursery shall be those approved by the Horticulture Department/Agriculture Deaprtment of the State Government, from time to time.
(3) The vegetatively propagated plant material shall be in direct proportion to the availability of rootsock (vegetatively propagated, if any) and scionwood with the nurseryman.
(4) Nurseryman will maintain a map showing the details of the field of beds and the kinds of varieties of plants in each bed.
(5) The nurseryman will maintain a register in the relevant form wherein the performance of the progency trees will be recorded
(6) The competent authority may declare mother trees as unfit for use, if it is statisfied on account of the following reasons :-
(a) poor quality of fruit
(b) poor bearing capacity;
(c) infested with insects pests and disease which vcannot be cured;
(d) any other reasons whcih may be considered fit by the competent authority in the interest of the fruit industry.
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(7) The nurseryman will quarantine such trees and will 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, these trees may be ordered to be adjusted by the competent authority and the nurseryman will carry out these orders, such orders shall also be under the supply and planting materials
9. Power of State Government to regular or prohibit import, export or transport of certain fruit plant.
The Government may, for the purpose of maitaining the quality of any fruit plant grown in any part of the State of to protect them from injurious insect pest or plant diseases, by notification in the official Gazette, regulate or prohibit the bringing into or taking out of the State or any part thereof, or the transport of them within the State, of any fruit plants of unknown pedigree or affected by any infectious of contagious disease or pests.