Section 2(1)(b) in The Maharashtra Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1963
(b)"agriculturist" means a person who ordinarily by himself or by hired labour or otherwise is engaged in the production of growth of agricultural produce which has not been processed, but does not include a trader, commission agent, processor or broker, an employee of Government or of any co-operative society or of a Market Committee, or a partner in trading firm or an industrial concern in or in relation to agricultural produce although such trader, commission agent, processor, broker, an employee of Government or of any co-operative society or of any Market Committee or a partner in trading firm or an industrial concern may also be engaged in the production or growth of agricultural produce;