Agricultural produce classification excludes manufactured rice bran products, invalidating market-fee treatment while core market-law amendments remain valid.

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....Rice bran oil and de-oiled rice bran produced through technical extraction and refining are manufactured commodities, not processed agricultural produce. The Schedule cannot expand the statutory definition of agricultural produce; executive inclusion of those products, consequential market-fee demands, and associated orders were invalid, with refund of paid fees directed. Market-fee amendments did not directly or immediately restrict movement of goods under Article 301 and did not require prior Presidential sanction. The special deemed-sale definition validly prevents fee evasion and is compatible with the Sale of Goods Act. Availability of market-wide regulatory services, rather than actual individual use, supports a fee levy on covered produce. Industrial and agricultural-market regulation operate in distinct fields, so no repugnancy arises.....