Organic Agriculture

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Organic Agriculture
Rohitashwa Gakhar, Head of Projects International
Competence Centre for Organic Agriculture
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ORGANIC WORLD 37.2 34.1 mn ha
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ORGANIC SPREAD 37.2 mn ha
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INDIA ORGANIC AGRICULTURE
1. Farmers with Sustainability Concerns
2. Progressive and Market Oriented Organic
Farmers
Relevance - About 74 farmers of India are small
and marginal farmers - to help reduce costs and
to increase incomes.
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ORGANIC AGRICULTURE INTERVENTION AREAS
O U T P U T S
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ORGANIC INDIA 1.2 mn ha
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ORGANIC MARKET - GLOBAL

• Currently Global Organic trade is USD 60 bn.
• Will reach USD 100 bn by 2015 (Rs. 5,00,000
  crores)

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ORGANIC MARKET - INDIA

• Currently Indias Organic trade is Rs. 2500
  crore
• Exports
• Food products Rs. 840 crores,
• Organic cotton Rs. 1025 crores,
• Domestic markets Rs. 600 crores
• By 2015, Indias total Organic trade will
  more than double to reach Rs. 6000 crores (over
  USD 1 bn)
• HUGE POTENTIAL STILL LEAVES US AT 1 OF GLOBAL
  TRADE

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ORGANIC EXPORTS - INDIA
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INDIA ORGANIC RETAIL

• GROWTH 25 -30

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Labels For use in under-conversion stages
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Labels For use in under-conversion stages
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INDIA - DEVELOPMENTS

• APEDA, Ministry of Commerce
• National Program on Organic Production (NPOP),
  Govt of India, since 2001National Standards
  NSOP- Acquired status of equivalence with EU and
  NOP standards.
• Stringent accreditation norms and strict
  monitoring
• Strong traceability - Tracenet
• Min of Agriculture promotional schemes Small
  farmers
• 15 states formulated/ formulating its own Organic
  farming Policies, since 2004

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INDIA STATE POLICIES

• 1. Profitability of small farmers will have
  increased by reducing input costs.
• State benefited by savings on fertilizers
• 2. Organic agribusiness An attractive
  opportunity for educated youth of the state-
• Creates a variety of job opportunities in the
  organic agribusiness sector, (e.g. post harvest
  handling, marketing of the products).
• Develop Bio Villages, Organic Villages for agro
  tourism, as part of the tourism development
  strategy of the state. The strategy will help
  convert organics into services with high value
  addition.
• 4. Strong institutional capacities and human
  resources in the state to implement appropriate
  organic strategies
• Boards/ State owned CBs

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ICCOA Mandate
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ICCOA
Research Project
ORGANIC LEADERSHIP COURSE BIOVILLAGE
PROJECT EVENTS CAPACITY BLDG PROGRAMS
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