State plans organic certification centres in all dists to boost farming

This year, the food safety and standards authority of India made it mandatory that for a product to be marketed as organic, it should have the organic certification. So traders have started to emphasize organic farmers to get their produce certified,” she said. The directorate expects the proposal to be sanctioned soon and certification centres to come up within a year, she said.The process of organic certification involves two levels. Based on this, the director of seed certification and organic certification, A Mathialagan, had sent the proposal, said Irene Priyadarshini, assistant director of agriculture, the Tamil Nadu organic certification department (TNOCD).