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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | No market access to organic farmers if not certified -Jayashree Nandi

No market access to organic farmers if not certified -Jayashree Nandi

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published Published on Mar 26, 2018   modified Modified on Mar 26, 2018
-The Times of India

If you are an organic farmer, now you cannot sell your produce through a retailer or other channels unless it is certified to be organic and carries a label with information on the organic status of the produce.

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued a notification recently laying down the requirements organic foods need to comply with. But farmer groups believe making certification a pre-requisite to sale of organic produce is an impediment for both existing organic farmers and farmers who are trying to transition to organic farming.

Only “small original producer or producer organisation” who market their produce through direct sales as determined by FSSAI will be exempted from the conditions in the notification. Farmer groups including Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) have pointed that not giving organic farmers access to the markets without first getting certified is going to slow down the organic food momentum. Certification by third party auditors is going to come at a cost to both the farmers and consumers, most farmers will not be able to do the paperwork needed to obtain and maintain organic certification or pay for it. “As the food safety regulator, you are aware of the all-pervasive contamination by agro-chemicals, including of groundwater. We believe that organic farming has to be supported in all ways possible for it to spread to larger areas in a short span, given the need of the hour…When certification is made legally mandatory on all organic farmers, with very limited exemptions, that has cost implications for both farmers and consumers. The regulation could deter farmers to shift to, and pursue safer food production systems, because it will involve higher burden on farmers, beyond their financial and other capabilities,” members of ASHA stated FSSAI in a letter recently.

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The Times of India, 23 March, 2018, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/no-market-access-to-organic-farmers-if-not-certified/articleshow/63431591.cms


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