Dr. Saswati Bose
Agricultural and Processed Food Products
Export Development Authority (APEDA)
Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Govt. of India
New Delhi
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Area under organic Certification : 4.72 m ha
Cultivated Area: 0. 72 mha
Forest Area: 4.00 m ha
Organic Certified Production : 1.24 million MT
Cultivable Production: 1.23 m MT
Wild Collection: 0.01 m MT

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Quantity Exported: 194087 MT
Food: 177765 MT
Textiles: 16322 MT
Increase over previous year: 17.4 %
• Value of Exports: 2428 Crores Rupees
Food exports: 1328 Crores
Textiles: 1100 Crores
Increase over previous year: 15.28 %
In USD : 403.09 Million USD
Increase over previous year: 7.74 %
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 Present global food market : 63.8 billion USD
 India’s total export of organic agricultural products (2013-14): 220.47 million USD
 India’s share in the global food market : 0.35 %
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EUROPEAN UNION
U.S.A.
CANADA
SWITZERLAND
BANGALADESH
JAPAN
U.A.E.
MALAYSIA
AUSTRALIA
NEWZEALAND

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Tea
Pulses
Sugar
Basmati Rice
Oilseeds (Sesame, Soyabean)
Spices
Cotton
Medicinal Plants
Processed Food
Dry Fruits

 Organic certification system is a quality assurance initiative, intended to assure quality, prevent fraud and promote commerce, based on set of standards and ethics.
 It is a process certification for producers of organic food and other organic products
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 Third party assurance from producer to the consumer
 For uniform label
 Assurance to the consumers that its concern for healthy food has been addressed.
 Effective marketing tool for Image, credibility, visibility/ Transparency

Accreditation
Guarantees that the certification program is competent to carry out specific tasks
• Authoritative body defines policies, standards and checks whether a certification system is operating according to standards
Standards define production methods, not the product quality
Minimum requirements, not
"best practice"
Standards <--> regulations
Continuously developed, dynamic
Can be International,
National or regional standards

Inspection
On-site visit to verify that the performance of an operation is in accordance specific standards with
Certification
Written confirmation that a process or product compliance is prescribed standards in with

NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR ORGANIC PRODUCTION (NPOP)
Standards
Compliance by Operators
Verified by the
Certification Body
Evaluated by the
Accreditation Body

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Implementation of the National Programme for
Organic Production (NPOP)
To provide a focused and well directed development of organic agriculture and quality products, Ministry of
Commerce and Industry, Government of India, launched the
National Program on Organic Production (NPOP) in the year
2000, which was formally notified in October 2001 under the
Foreign Trade & Development Act (FTDR Act).
 NPOP provides information on standards for organic production, systems, criteria, and procedures for accreditation of Inspection and Certification bodies, the national organic logo and the regulations governing its use.
 The standards and procedures have been formulated in harmony with international standards such as those of
Codex and IFOAM.
 NPOP is implemented under AGMARK by Ministry of
Agriculture for the domestic market (voluntary).

Recognition of NPOP Standards
 The NPOP standards for production and accreditation system have been recognized by
European Commission*and Switzerland* as equivalent to their country standards.
 USDA has recognized NPOP conformity assessment procedures of accreditation as equivalent to that of
US.
 With these recognitions, Indian organic products duly certified by the accredited certification bodies of India are accepted by the importing countries.
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Processed products are at present not covered under the equivalency agreement with EU and Switzerland

SCOPE OF CERTIFICATION
PRESENT CATEGORIES
• Cultivated Crops
• Wild Collection
• Processed food products (single/multi ingredients)
• Chain of custody (traders, storage, transport, export)
NEW CATEGORIES (
standards are in the process for notification under NPOP)
• Aquaculture,
• Livestock
• Textiles
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Role Of APEDA Under NPOP
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Implementation of NPOP
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Evaluation, accreditation , surveillance monitoring of Certification bodies and
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Organic traceability through web based electronic traceability system -Tracenet
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Review of National Standards and Amendments
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Establish equivalency with the importing countries
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Training and capacity building of Stakeholders
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Export Promotion
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MAJOR STAKEHOLDERS
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Progressive farmers / NGOs implementing Grower
Groups
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MoC – APEDA implementing NPOP
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MoA – NCOF ( promotion)
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DMI/FSSAI(domestic market)
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States Governments promoting organic farming under RKVY, NHM and NCOF schemes of MOA
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Organic Industry
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Certification Bodies 26
No. of Certified Operators -4346
No. of individual operators 2109
Producers 971
Processor 682
Trader/Exporter 693
No. of Grower Groups 2237
No. of farmers – 5.91lakhs
Wild operators 63
Total wild collectors: 143610

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