(1) The Inspection officer may inspect the nursery to ensure healthy and high quality plant production and may issue written recommendations/directions in this regard.
(2) The Inspection officer may during inspection of nursery issue directions to destroy the infested/infected plants and trees by observing the situation of insects and pests within a prescribed time limit.
(3) If the procedure given in subsection (2) is not followed by the Inspection officer within the prescribed period, then Department may itself take action to destroy the plants and trees and all the expenses incurred so shall be borne 7 by the nursery owner which may be recovered as recovery of the arrear of land revenue through the Revenue Department.
(4) The proceeding under subsection (2) & (3) shall be done by a Gazetted Officer.
(5) The licence holder / nursery owner shall in writing, provide the information regarding the availability of rainy season planting material for sale by the month of May and the information regarding the availability of winter season planting material for sale by the month of October to the Chief /District Horticulture Officer of their district.
(6) The information as age of plants, number of plants, number of mother plants and genetic details, root stock and scion of saleable fruit plants provided by the license holder / nursery owner (if received by other fruit nursery /instructions) shall be verified at nursery level by a committee constituted by department report of which shall be provided by the Committee to the Director, Horticulture.
(7) The digging out of plants from the nursery shall be done only after the verification of the committee, otherwise the procurement of plants shall not be considered.
Sale, Packing & Labelling of plants