India: Centre plans to lift export ban on organic products
Talking about the lack of domestic standards, Mr Tripathy said, “Today, there is another challenge of an absence of a credible domestic certification system in India and that is something the ministry of agriculture or any other concerned ministry has to do”. The chairman-cum-secretary of Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APE-DA) Santosh Sarangi said that one of the major challenges for India is maintaining the integrity of organic certification system.
“All stakeholders like farmers, processors, traders and the certification bodies in the organic process should be fully involved and committed to maintaining the integrity of the certification system,” he said. “There is a huge potential for the country to penetrate into the $64 billion worth global organic food market as India currently has a meagre 0.35 per cent share in the global organic food basket.
Source: deccanchronicle.com
