State Policy on Organic Farming in

Madhya Pradesh

August 2010

Ministry of Farmers’ Welfare and Agriculture Development

Government of Madhya Pradesh

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 ABBERVIATIONS

APEDA : Agriculture Produce Export Development Agency

ATMA : Agriculture Technology Management Agency
CBO : Community Based Organization
CBs : Certifing Bodies
CCB : Central Cooperative Bank
CER : Certified Emission Reduction
CSO : Civil Society Organization
DOSA : Development of Sustainable Agriculture
EU : European Union
FPC : Farmers Producers Company
GAP : Good Agriculture Practices
GDP : Gross Domestic Product
GGC : Growers Group Certification
GHG : Green House Gases
GMO : Genetically Modified Organization
ICS : Internal Control System
IFOAM : Internal Forum for Organic Agriculture Movement
ISO : International Standards Organization
ITES : Information Technology Enable Services
JAS : Japanese Agriculture Standards
ITK : Indigenous Technology Knowledge
KVK : Krishi Vighyan Kendra
KNG : Kamdhenu Natural Gas
MiC : Methyl iso Cyanide
MFP : Minor Forest Produces
MFI : Micro Finance Institutions
MSW : Municipal Solid Waste
NGO : Non Government Organization
NRAA : National Rainfed Area Authority
NOP : National Organic Programme
NPOP : National Programme On Organic Product
NTFP : Non Timbre Forest Produce
OM : Organic Matter
PGS : Participatory Guarantee Scheme
RKVY : Rashtiya Krishi Vikas Yojna
RRB : Regional Rural Bank
SHGs : Self Help Group
SOC : Soil Organic Carbon
SOM : Soil Organic Matter
QC : Quality Control
USP : Unique Selling Point
USDA : United State Development Agency
VOs : Voluntary Organizations

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1.00 Preamble

1.10 Madhya Pradesh signifies the heart of India, bestowed with ever flowing and
most reverend rivers like “Narmada”, “Betwa” “Ken and “Chambal”, rich diversity of
flora and fauna, picturesque forests of high value Teak, Sal, Bamboo, vast
grasslands with Fascinating wildlife in their natural habitat, yet local and original
communities living in harmony with mother nature ever since human civilization.

1.20 The vast expanse of great ranges of Vindhyanchal and Satpura, highly
productive plains of Malwa, ravines of Chambal and hills of Kaymore, rich heritage of
Bundelkhand all provides unique opportunities for its development.

1.30 The state has unique distinction of earning huge foreign exchange through high
value exports of farm produce like soybean DOC, soybean oil, variety of pulses, best
quality bread wheat, fruits like mango, banana, vegetables of all types and seasons,
spices, condiments, aromatic and medicinal herbs, produce from forests both timber
and non timber, minor forest produce like leaves, fibre, natural dyes and many
products of plant and animal origin. Yet the depending population remain in the
clutches of poverty and state bears a stigma of under developed region in the
country.

1.40 The state has 11 agro – climatic zones, with > 20 million ha of gross cropped
area with cropping intensity in excess of 135%. The state has over 40% irrigated
area and possess large portfolio of crops seasonal, perennial and perishable.

1.50 The state occupies prime position in terms of having more than 1.48 Lakh ha
area under certified organic out of a total certified area of 3.40 Lakh ha in the
country. According to an estimate 5.86 Lakh MT of production was organically
produced in the country out of which 19456 MT was exported worth RS 300 Million
during the year 2007 – 08. In the recent past a staggering growth of 39% has been
registered in terms of certified area under organics country wide taking it over 12
Lakh ha as per ICCOA and a target of 20 Lakh ha is set by 2012. India commits for
taking its global share in organic exports from 0.2% to 2.5%. This provides great
opportunity for the state to maintain its lead and continue to harness its potential.
The state has large area under extremely low external and chemical input agriculture
of tribal population both in the eastern and western extremes of the state, natural
grasslands, forests proves to be organic and or natural niches by “default”. The
external input use especially inorganic fertilizers, agro – chemicals and hybrids and
genetically modifies species remain well below national averagei.

1.60 Despite the lowest consumption of the nasty agro – chemicals, the state bears
the deep scars of Bhopal Gas Tragedy, which is one of the most dreadful of the man
made tragedy of genocide. The ill famous MiCii - an intermediary used for producing
pesticides proved counter productive and provides all the reasons to reduce the use
of such inputs for productivity enhancement.

1.70 Ecosystemiii consists of mainly floral and faunal biodiversity, habitat diversity
and landscape conservation. The findings of many studies suggest that organic
farming clearly performs better than conventional farming in respect to floral and

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faunal diversity hence enhances the biodiversity and shall complement the action
plan of state bio – diversity board.

1.90 Recognizing the role of agriculture in the overall development of the state
economy, the government of Madhya Pradesh has taken several pragmatic, futuristic
initiatives. Agriculture in the state comprises of a conglomerate of several farm and
non-farm activities, which support livelihood of those dependent on it. Organic
farming shall play a vital role in the state agriculture. Hence the state is obliged to
come up with a comprehensive policy on Organic Farming.

2.00 State Commitment:

2.10 The state government had reverberated a comprehensive and cohesive

commitment to convert the existing agriculture in to a profitable venture for millions of
small holders, marginal farmers, landless and agriculture labours in the year 2009
under which, serious thoughts on various issues related resource management,
market reforms, technology generation and dissemination, breaking barriers of yield
through effective and harmonious research and development efforts, attaining a
healthy and upwardly spiralling growth rate comparable with forward looking states in
the country. The Department of Farmers’ Welfare and Agriculture Development, MP
State Krishak Aayog, Department of Horticulture and Food Processing, Department
of Animal Husbandry, Department of Fisheries and other allied sectors identified the
areas of concern specific to the their domain, which needs intervention of the state
government, and prepared a comprehensive strategy to fulfil the state commitment.

2.20 MP State Organic Farming Policy is the statement of intent to create, facilitate,
and strengthen the enabling environment for developing integrated value chains of
the organic farm produce encompassing end-to-end solutions for both primary
producers and consumers. The policy entails on “farm – to – fork” approach
reassuring abundant supply of “healthy food for all”. The policy statement provides
concurrent thinking of the state with its futuristic, pragmatic pro-farmer initiatives.

2.30 The policy enshrines the spirit of developing organic farming as an apt answer
to many burning issues like increasing threats to agriculture due to devastating
impacts of global climate change, ever spiralling costs of production and associated
ill effects of skewed subsidy regime applicable to external agriculture inputs,
increasing ingress of trans – national players in the domain of agribusiness,
increasing significance of global research and development efforts, neo –
colonization of the global food market and diminutive, conservative and conventional
technologies offered to small holders, marginal farmers and agrarian community at
large. The policy endows long term commitment to creating opportunities for the rural
community engaged in primary production activities and formally interfacing with
industry on equal terms to share the benefits of value added domain in the
agriculture sector.

2.40 The policy proposes a pragmatic vision, achievable set of targets, proposes
niche areas, customized strategies to develop value chains of the organically
produces farm commodities and evolves mechanisms to convert the lowly paying
“farm commodities” in to most sought after “high value brands” “ultimately

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declaring itself as organic state”. The state further resolves that all efforts related
to organic farming promotion in the state such as strengthening state organic
certification agency, establishing State Organic Farming Research and Development
Institute, National Organic Farming University, Community based Organizations of
Organic Growers, Traders, Processors, Quality Control Laboratories shall work
under an umbrella organization Of State Organic Mission. The mission would be the
harbinger of the organic farming initiatives and dovetail programs for ease and
efficiency.

3.0 Vision:

3.10 “Capitalizing inherent potential by converting weakness and threats of low

production agriculture in to booming opportunities through Organic Farming
attaining sustainability by agro – eco system management and harnessing
hyper markets for premium farm products”

3.20 The vision reiterates converting Madhya Pradesh as one of the leading states in
the systematic and scientific, yet sustainable organic state, wherein the farming
communities derive their livelihoods, produce safe contamination free food, conserve
natural resources, manage soil health, redeem safe ground and surface water and
generate new employment avenues within villages.

4.00 Policy Goals:

The “MP State Organic Farming Policy 2010” envisions three fold goals
considering cross sectoral, temporal and spatial factors across the contours of
productivity enhancement from the low production potential regions, threats of
climate change, markets and above all holistic development paradigm especially
encompassing agrarian communities in the hinterlands.

4.10 Long term:

Attaining environmental sustainability through agro – eco – systems management

strategies leading to improved soil health measured by increased sequestered Soil
Organic Carbon (SOC) stocks, exterminate ground water contaminations especially
of heavy metals and anthropotoxic chemicals and increased biomass unit area -1
through inherently conserved biodiversity;

4.20 Medium term:

Enhancing return rates unit area-1 within the existing farming systems by rationalizing
cost of production of the farm produce on one hand and increasing cash returns by
augmenting market driven processes;

4.30 Short term:

Ensuring enabling environment by developing capable and professional human

resources and institutions necessary to both technology and market securities
especially for small holders and families on the fringes of agrarian economies,
creating suitable infrastructures, assuring quality input supplies necessary for

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organic production processes, harnessing in situ biodegradable resources and
addressing ever increasing demands for energy;

5.00 Organic farming

5.10 Definition

5.10.1 The National Program on Organic Production (NPOP) denotes organic

agriculture as “a system of farm design and management to create an eco system,
which can achieve sustainable productivity without the use of artificial external inputs
such as chemical fertilizers and pesticides”.

5.10.2 Codex Alimentarius Commission argues that the “organic agriculture is

holistic production management system, which promotes and enhances agro – eco
system health, including biodiversity, biological cycle and soil biological activities”.

5.20 Scope

5.20.1 The scope of organic farming in the present purview of the MP State Organic
Farming Policy 2010 includes all field food and non food crops especially
emphasising the crops grown in the low external input regimes of fertilizers and agro
chemicals, crops and varieties of the point of origin iv, crops like hill millets (e.g. Kodo,
Kutki, Sawna, Ragi), landraces of Maize, sorghum, pearl millet, grain pulses,
oilseeds like Niger, Safflower, Castor. All fruits, vegetables grown in homestead,
fruits grown in natural habitat, cultivated under designed and registered certified
organic farms, spices and condiments, herbs of aromatics, medicinal use and
importance.

5.20.2 Major crops cultivated on the farmland under low external input regimes like
soybean, wheat, grain pulses, cotton and other fibre crops of high economic
importance, oilseeds, vegetables and fruits grown for hyper markets and or
processing would be of higher importance.

5.20.3 Forest based Food Products and Derivatives: The state’ vast expanse of
forest with huge diversity provides wide range of forest based produce. The agencies
responsible for managing forest based produce and derivatives thereof would be
encouraged to accelerate process of market orientation and shall be given high
priority to optimize the under-utilized potentialv.

5.20.4 All farm produce from plant and animal origin, inputs like manures, composts,
MSWvi, liquid microbial solutions, biofertilizers, bio insecticides, fungicides, hormones
and enzymes of plant and microbial origin allowed as per the legal provisions of the
organic standards under certified organic farming regime required for production
under organic regime shall form main body of the scope of the new policy.

5.30 Spectrum

5.31 Organics by Default: The state has large area under serviced by the external
inputs of inorganic and chemical origin; the policy envisages promoting those areas
where such contraband inputs as per the legal provisions of the organic standards vii

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are least used by the primary producers, growers and farmers. There a number of
strategies e.g. Permaculture, NATUECO Farming wherein organic and bio
degradables are allowed to deposit and decompose on the earth crust with least
human interface, the seeds are allowed to grown in the natural environ with mutually
beneficial processesviii.

5.31.1 Identification of the niche areas: The organic farming in the state is in the
nascent state despite the largest area under certified organic farming in the country.
These areas remain unserviced by the agencies responsible to facilitate systematic
and scientific organic farming. Regions, districts, blocks, Gram Panchayats having
50 – 60 % below state average in terms of external input use i.e. fertilizers of
inorganic origin, agro – chemicals should targeted as primary niches for promoting
organic farming. The state is the heart land of tribal population in the country, most of
the tribal blockix provides excellent opportunities as the tribal farming communities in
most part of the state still follows the principals of organic farming an d sustainable
agriculture by default.

5.31.2 Institutional areas: State owned institutions like department of farmers’

welfare and agriculture development’ farms, state seed farms, KVK farms, state
horticulture farms, sericulture farms, fish farms, state agriculture university farms,
farms managed by corporate bodies, large private farms, Animal husbandry farms
managed and or owned by civil society organizations involved in agriculture and rural
development, Gaushala farms, Kanji-housex farms owned by public charities and
trusts shall be encouraged to convert to organic farms. The large number of such
institutional entities shall provide excellent opportunities for systematic and scientific
demonstrations of well managed organic farming sites on one hand shall be the
institutions for training, learning, research and development on the various aspects
of organic farming.

5.31.3 Notification to declare as natural organics: The state has vast expanse of
forest lands, natural grasslands, natural groves, uncontaminated farmlands in the
deep interiors of the tribal farming systems, which could be notified as natural
organics through appropriate legislative provisionsxi. A similar legislation will be
passed to notify such areas in the state.

5.31.4 NTFPs, Medicinal and Aromatics: Non Timber Forest Produce (NTFPs),
plants of medicinal and aromatic value derived from natural groves and or cultivated
under certified organic farms provides unique untapped opportunity in the state,
these products enters the hyper markets for use as primary products or derivatives
after scientific value addition and processing, the local communities mostly poor,
tribal and women possess unique indigenous technical knowledge (ITK) related to
these products and commodities, the new policy envisions to cover this vast under
utilized resources and knowledge through systematic and scientific cataloguing and
following the formal certification as products of organic and natural origin. The best
example of this could be the certified organic honey, lac and mashrooms collected
by tribal communities from the natural groves and forest areas.

5.31.5 Organic and Natural Dyes: The flowers (e.g. Palash)xii, produced in
abundance in the natural groves and the fringe forest areas in the state, besides the
flowers, fruits, plant parts, leaves, roots, bark etc… provides opportunity to accrue

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the gains from the organic farming policy. The systematic and scientific processes
necessary to qualify the organic certification regime could fetch higher prices,
meaningful engagement of the local communities collecting these materials and
entering in to hyper markets as unique products. This may form part of the alternate
livelihood for the poor and landless, create opportunities for employment and
proliferate in the rural enterprises of higher return.
5.31.6 Products of Animal Origin: The products of animal origin, milk, wool, Hyde,
remain beyond contemplated list of products; such vast resources could enter in to
organized value chains and may fetch price premium for the primary producers.

5.32 Organics by Design: The state has over a decade long history of sincere and
sustained efforts to popularize organic farming among farmers in all districts among
all contingents of the farming communities, the Department of Farmers’ Welfare and
Agriculture Development started development of organic and sustainable agriculture
(DOSA) in the year 2001 – 02xiii. Even before these efforts of the state Kasturba
Gandhiji National Memorial Rural Trust started practicing organic agriculture in its
200 ha since in 1969xiv. These efforts led to adoption of many techniques and
technology packages in those areas. The new policy envisages continuing with such
efforts with renewed vigour and systematic and strategic actions.

5.32.1 Consolidating the gains from existing certified areas: It is perceived that
state has largest registered certified organic area under various crops mostly in
better off and high potential production farming systems. The target crops vary from
cotton, chillies to soybean and wheat besides other crops. These areas could
providing a leading edge to the policy impetus and gain further momentum in terms
of popularizing formal and scientific organic farming.

5.32.2 Identifying the low external input areas: Besides the area under natural
organics by default in the hinterlands and under serviced areas in tribal regions,
forest areas, and low production potential farming systems, the policy thrust areas
where the use of purchased external inputs of inorganic and chemical origin is lower
than the state averages. These regions, villages, Gram Panchayats, blocks and
districts provide yet another opportunity to expand the organic portfolio within the
purview of the new policy.

5.32.3 Designing value chains of important organic produces: The current policy
proposes integrated value chain management, which includes primary producers as
vital integral part of the whole chain and not seen as suppliers of the raw material to
organic food and other product industry. The value chain spectrum both at back-end
and front-end must have primary producer as the key stakeholder. The current
organized retail management initiatives through corporate induced investments must
recognize the role of primary organic producer as equal stakeholders in the whole
value chain management. The policy encourages incorporation of the commercially
viable producer owned institutions, associations, and cooperatives to take on this
responsibility and to work shoulder to shoulder with corporate entities in the state.
The integrity of the organic chain must be unbroken and continuously avoid interface
with conventional produce during harvest, storage process, packing and marketing
till the end user.

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5.32.4 Developing Organic hubs: The state has shown a pathway showcasing its
organically produced commodities by organizing Jaivik Haatsxv , the policy pays
fresh and renewed impetus to such efforts and shall promote the initiatives taken up
by a range of stakeholders to establish Organic Hubs in and around the organic
farming areas. These hubs would be managed by Primary producers’ institutions,
producers of the organic inputs, processors, marketers of the certified organic
produce, trade and industry and corporate interested in dealing and promoting
organic farming in the state. These hubs would be the nodal points of produce
aggregation, besides being “One – Stop – Shop” for a wide and varied portfolio of
organically produced stuffs.

5.33 Organics for Sustainable Agriculture: In addition to the “Four Principles of

Organic Farmingxvi postulated by International Federation of Organic Agriculture
Movements (IFOAM), the new policy emulates the principles of self reliance and
economic interdependence; it enshrines and encompasses the best practices for
sustainable agriculture, the state has many niches wherein the influx of modern day
diminutive technologies for short term yield gains causing serious concern for future
of the agriculture in those areas. The increasing use of inorganic fertilizers,
indiscriminate use of synthetic and obnoxious pesticides, use of genetically modified
varieties of the key crops of very high value in terms of their economic importance
and human use, unsustainable practices like burning of crop residues, Stover after
the harvesting by machines like large combine harvesters polluting the air, killing the
soil micro flora and fauna and restricting the availability of the biodegradable material
for use as animal feed and composting are some of the glaring examples. The new
policy takes cognizance of these ill designed and prevailing practices and shall tide
over the unscrupulous elements more systematic and scientific manner. The new
policy initiatives once grounded well within such areas through state and non – state
interventions, awareness building, capacity building and incentivising research and
development portfolio shall be precursor to GAPxvii regime.

5.34 Organics for Hyper Markets: The market for certified organically produced
commodities is witnessing exponential growth in past decade. The transnational
market providing export opportunitiesxviii to a great extent however, the dataset
suggest a large home market for the products of organic origin. The huge demand
for safe and quality food is ever growing with the growth in the purchasing power of
the urban communities within country. This vast untapped potential provides greater
opportunities for the organic farming in the state. The policy places high priority to
this segment of the organic farming with due earnest and shall put in all out efforts to
seize the immense opportunity favouring millions of small and marginal primary
producers and organic farmers.

5.35 Organics for Carbon Market:

5.35.1 The way to mitigate the crisis in agriculture is to increase soil organic matter
(SOM) and Humus. The living soils function through a mixture of substances that
originate from decomposition of plants and animal material. In common language,
this called Farm yard Manure used for millennia in Indian and Chinese agricultural
systems. They have capacity to absorb 100 times more water and nutrient to be
released to the plants later. The accumulation of Organic Matter (OM) in the soil is
the key factor in lowering the amount of CO2, methan etc…. in the atmospherexix.

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5.35.2 Modern organic techniques have the potential to maintain and even increase
yields over the long term while improving soil fertility, biodiversity and other
ecosystem services that underpin agriculture. Crop rotations in organic farming
provide more habitats for biodiversity due to the resulting diversity of housing,
breeding and nutritional supply. As synthetic agro-chemicals are prohibited in
organic agriculture, its adoption can help prevent the recurrence of the estimated 3
million cases of acute severe pesticide poisoning and 300,000 deaths that result
from agrochemical use in conventional agriculture every year. Organic systems have
57% lower nitrate leaching rates compared with other farming systems, and zero risk
of surface water contamination. In terms of benefits for climate change, various
studies have shown that organic farming uses 20-to-56% less energy per produced
unit of crop dry matter than conventional agriculture, and that organic fields
sequester three-to-eight more tons of carbon per hectarexx.

5.35.3 The new policy envisions to tap this vast potential for carbon sink may provide
opportunities to sequester 0.3 – 0.6 t C ha-1 Y-1 and may develop a framework for
converting this in to CERsxxi.

5.36 Organics for Processing Industry: The organic food, feed and processed and
or packaged products needs special mention and this policy considering huge
potential in the state would encourage primary producers, processors and marketers
to seize this opportunityxxii.

6.00 Statutory Obligations

6.10 Organic Certification: “Certification is the procedure by which officially

recognized certification bodies, provide written or equivalent assurance that foods or
food control systems conform to requirements of organic operation”xxiii. Consumers
want assurance that products labelled “organic” are indeed produced according to
organic production methods, and producers want to know that other producers also
claiming to produce organic products are competing fairly. The “organicness” xxiv of a
product cannot be established by looking at the harvested product or by testing it.
Rather, it is ascertained through documentation and inspection of the whole
production process. Organic certification systems were developed in the early 1970s
and by 2000 GOI took serious steps to formalize organic farming in the Country. The
Ministry of Commerce launched the National Organic Programme in April 2000 and
Agricultural and Processed Food Products Exports (APEDA) is implementing the
National Programme of Organic Production (NPOP) (Gouri, 2004). Under the NPOP,
documents like National Standards, accreditation criteria for accrediting inspection
and certification agenciesxxv, have been prepared and approved by the National
Steering Committee.

6.11 State Level Agency: The new organic policy lays fresh impetus to make fully
functional the already existing state level organic certification agencyxxvi with all
necessary facilities and expertise to meet the current and future challenges and
statutory obligations of national and international nature. The current challenges of
identifying and deploying trained and professional human resources would the
ardent task and shall be accomplished with due diligence as top priority area in the

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ambit of new policy guidelines. The policy would ensure a time bound program to
achieve this within three months.

6.12 Grower Group Certification (GGC): Grower Group Certification is the internal
quality system and shall apply to small holding farmer groups, farmer’s cooperatives,
contract production and small scale processing unit. Certification of a group of
producers who share common elements are organized under one management and
marketing system. Grower group certifications have been used for crops and groups
of producers located in a geographical or social region, whose crops are marketed
collectively. Grower groups must establish and implement their own system of
Internal Control, supervision and documentation of production practices, as well as
other important aspects of each member’s operation, to insure compliance with
organic certification standards. Growers’ groups must utilize centralize processing,
distribution and marketing facilities and systems. The new policy domain would
encourage the GGC on a wider scale to rationalize the cost of certification, yet
maintain the quality standards (NPOP, NOP, EU, JAS any other) with due diligence,
care and caution.

6.12.1 Internal Control Systems: An Internal Control System (ICS) is a

documented quality assurance system that allows the external certification body to
delegate the annual inspection of individual group members to an identified body/unit
within the certified operator. ICS operators work as binding force among farmers,
and allow developing and using single window for buying, trading and training. The
new policy domain cease the opportunity to broad base the GGC (refer para
6.12anbove) and encourage a wide range of institutions like specially “designated
accredited and certified organic agri-clinics operators”, CBOs, CSOs, NGOs,
Commodity Associations, FPC, Cooperatives, SHGs and federations thereof, KVKs,
zonal and regional agriculture and horticulture research stations to develop their
competencies and assume the responsibilities of providing high quality services as
ICS Managers.

6.12.2 Chartered quality assurance managers, inspectors, ICS Auditors,

Operators: A large scale organic operation both under default and designed regions
with full utilization of the wide spectrum of opportunities would require the high
quality and competent services for quality assurance system in compliance to the
statutory and legal requirements binding to declare and denote organic produce. The
policy put highest emphasis to develop such competencies among the rural youth,
graduates and post graduates in agriculture and allied sciences to attain such levels
of accredited and certified competencies to provide such services on full economic
cost price to all who demands such services. The new policy promulgates the
philosophy of paid extension services to dawn a new era in the agriculture extension
and technology management through such bold yet timely initiatives. This would help
generate local employment for the rural literate youth and encourage them to take up
systematic and scientific quality professional education to register themselves as
independent or corporatized ICS operators in the hinterlands.

6.13 Participatory Guarantee System (PGS): The PGS is an internationally

applicable organic quality assurance system [like ISO 9000 and 14001] implemented
and controlled by the committed organic farmer-producers through active
participation, along with the consumers, in the process based on verifiable trust. The

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farmer pledges that the production process is free from manufactured chemicals
[fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, hormones, etc] and lives by his word of honor.
The “Local Group” of five or more organic farmers is the fulcrum of the self-
regulatory support system of PGS. The quality assurance standards are harmonized
by the PGS Organic India Council, which permits the use of its PGS label on a
product as a mark of quality. The International Federation of Organic Agriculture
Movements or IFOAM defines PGS thus: “Participatory Guarantee Systems are
locally focused quality assurance systems. They certify producers based on active
participation of stakeholders and are built on a foundation of trust, social networks
and knowledge exchange.”

6.14 A precursor of PGS is already being practiced in MP initiated during the year
2002 by constituting a village level standing committee and empowering it to certify
the primary producers’ claim of being truly organic in terms of use of inputs and
processxxvii.

6.15 Level of Equivalency with National and International Standards: The issue
of level of equivalency is well thought and emphatically dealt by APEDA as one of
the key national accreditation agency, the new policy would work in tandem with
APEDA’s quality assurance system and encourage all the stakeholders within the
fold of organic farming in the state to strengthen the state level agency on par with
national and international agencies.

6.16 Stand on GM: The new policy shall take firm stand against GM crops xxviii and
shall make adequate mechanisms to check unscrupulous elements to push GMOs in
the certified / notified organic areas.

6.17 The state commits itself for a “GM free status of its agriculture”, this requires
strong resolve on the part of statutory agencies engaged in enforcement of
agriculture legislations on one hand, input agencies and farmers on the other hand.
The state shall reprimand actors and elements promoting GM seeds and gradually
attain a GM Free environment.

7.00 Organic Inputs: The organic inputs of appropriate quality with assured supply
and rationalized price plays crucial role in accelerating the growth rate of organic
farming. The new policy pays top most priority to this aspect of organic farming and
shall abide to the obligation of making organic input portfolio a real time growth
engine of organic farming. The key inputsxxix in the organic farming are soil and plant
nutrition supplements, plant protection agentsxxx, seeds and varieties of the crops
and technologies that work in harmony with principles of organic farming. The earlier
three are input based technologies and can be delivered to the practioners of organic
farming, the later one fall in the category of knowledge based technology, which by
virtue requires more participatory strategy. The quality control, quality assurance,
packaging, pricing and delivery mechanism are some of the key issues that requires
state interventions through quasi – legal and statutory provisions. The current legal
provisions do not suffice the purpose hence the new policy shall postulate a new set
of guidelines and control orders for the organic inputs.

7.10 Connecting Bio – Energy and Organic Inputs: The availability of unabated
supply of power / energy remains elusive in the remote rural areas, however,

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alternate or non conventional sources of energies like solar and biomass could play
a critical role in achieving energy security in the rural areas. The bio energy
especially bio – gas and gober gas produces energies as well as high quality
manures. The new policy shall pay utmost attention to develop the bio – gas / gobar
gas interventions with the twin objective of producing domestic fuel, captive power
and enriched organic manure. There are adequate mechanisms and technologies
that can be deployed to achieve the twin objectives simultaneously making the
initiative a profitable and environment friendly venture.

7.11 Bio gas producers’ companies in the hinterlands: To make the bio – energy
– organic input production a commercially viable and sustainable stand alone
initiative, the new policy would encourage the rural youth, primary organic producers,
CBOs, CSO, private and corporate to develop bio energy producers companies,
suitable mechanisms would be developed to support incorporation, handholding and
technology backstopping to nurture these budding institutions. These producer
Companies once grounded firmly in their areas of operation shall provide meaningful
employment to the rural youth on sustained basis.

7.12 Urban bio – degradable waste management – tapping the commercial

opportunities under PPCP mode: The urban areas in the state produces huge
amount of solid and liquid waste, the civic bodies struggle to manage such waste in
environmentally benign manner. In the recent past some of the civic bodies have
come up with the plans to manage such waste in PPP mode. The new policy shall
work in tandem with civic bodies and extend the PPP mode in to PPCP xxxi. MSW,
night soil compost, partnership with institutions like Sulabh Internationalxxxii shall be
of great importance to use their expertise, technologies and institutional support for
the benefit of organic farming. The peri – urban agriculture a neglected field in the
farm sectors holds high promise and shall be yet another appropriate niche to
strengthen organic farming around urban conglomerates. The urban dairy hubs, fruit
and flower cultivation farms shall be developed wherein urban population may work
on the principle of “own a cow for fresh milk” philosophy. The peri – urban
agriculture provides easy access to markets for the organically produced perishables
and products of animal origin. The new policy shall strategies to cease these
opportunities upfront as priority area. Similarly peri – urban agriculture at times plays
havocxxxiii as the external input use especially inorganic fertilizers, pesticides is much
higher and indiscriminate, the new policy taking cognizance shall notify such areas
for pure organic farming areas.

7.13 Developing framework and augmenting opportunities for carbon trading:

The issue of generating CERs through organic farming has been a fascinating
opportunity for the farm sector, however, appropriate R & D in this field and
adequate framework to measure the carbon sink is conspicuously absent. The new
policy would encourage R & D institutions to develop a framework to monitor and
measure carbon sink. The most appropriate opportunity could be bio energy and use
of organic manures that hasten the process of restricting GHG sources and expands
the sink within the system. The future CER would generate a carbon fund to continue
with financing the sector even without state aid and shall be a viable option for
earning higher returns from the hitherto low paying activity.

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7.20 Towards Indigenous Cow Based Rural Economy:

“Madhvee gavo bhuvantu nah”xxxiv

Cows in the farming system play the role of mother since Vedic times, the Vedas
define cow as Kamadhenu xxxv, organic farming ever since its inception depends
hugely on the cows for proving the inputs that supports organic farming.
Panchgyvaxxxvi has been used since Vedic times as magic input to produce more
sustainably, similarly Amrut Panixxxvii have been used since ancient time as soil
enhancer. The new policy sees the bovine wealth as a boon to herald a
breakthrough in the rural economy. The new policy would tread the path to establish
and strengthen Cow Based Rural Economy in the state with its 20 xxxviii m bovine
population. The policy takes a non religious, non political and strictly economic view
point to achieve sustainable development of rural economy. The policy enshrines
with the encouragementxxxix of bovines emphasising research and development
effortsxl to break the barriers and produce such technologies enhancing quality cows
rearing and hence shall put in place such schemes that incentivise the small holder
to increase their herds. Fodder development has always been an elusive factor
limiting the scope of animal husbandry especially for small holders; the department
of veterinary will be directed to develop such schemesxli.

7.21Dry Dairies: A large number of nondescript bovine population remain

unproductive and under utilized resource left to lurch around in the urban, semi –
urban and rural areas. Poor feeding and breeding management makes this
population a burden on the agro – eco system. The concept of dry dairies will ensure
a systematic and scientific feeding and breeding management especially when the
animal is in dry period. The dry dairies would keep such animals during the dry
period and see that they produce pedigree generations with selection for breed
purification, breed improvement using the indigenous germplasm, on calving the
animal would be return to the owner in the milch, appropriate operational modalities
would be worked out to implement such schemes on mass scale. These dairies
provide the opportunities to produce bio energy, manures and other such products
that add to the organic input telly. A large number of landless farmers, women, rural
youth and agriculture labourers or small herders would be the target population
providing them opportunities for meaningful employment and sustainable livelihood.

7.22 Gobar gas (Kamdhenu Natural Gas KNG) – Cleaning and bottling as
domestic fuel: Research have shown that Gobar gas can be purified for the
impurities like Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) excessive water vapours and other such
contents impeding its bottling for easy transportation and use as and when required.
The bio – energy / Gobar gas Producing Companies would be encouraged to
harness the potential of such technology advancement and produce KNG for
domestic and auto fuel. This will help them generate yet another account of CERs by
saving fossil based hydrocarbons.

7.23 Power Generation – decentralized captive power generation: Besides the

dry dairies producing enriched manures, they would be encouraged to produce
power by setting of appropriate size captive power plants using gobar – gas as
feedstock.

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7.24 Managing Cold Chains: Developing and managing cold chains in the remote
rural areas have been a challenge restricted by power supply greatly hindering the
chances of producing and marketing perishables. The captive power generation
capacities harnessed through the use of gobar – gas / bio – gas would be primarily
utilized for developing and managing small cold storages and cold chains to
augment the opportunities of organic farming of perishables.

7.25 Enriched Manures with quality assurance, standards: The enriched

manures with certified quality assurance system with adequate quality standards
would be the key business venture and shall put the cow based rural economy on
firm footing.

7.26 Employment opportunities and rural entrepreneurship: The rural youth

would be the key target for engaging them in to meaningful rural enterprises. The
RBHxlii scheme would provide the right platform for this to take shape.

7.30 Organic Input Enterprises and Rural Youth: Organic input enterprises within
the ambit of RBH or similar such schemes would further provide the opportunities to
rural youth and educated youth interested to develop organic input production and
marketing enterprises.

7.40 Quality Control Facilities for Inputs: The QC remains an elusive factor
making room for unscrupulous elements cheating the poor farmers on many counts.
The new policy commits to put in place such statutory enforcement mechanisms and
appropriate legal framework to cover all organic inputs within its fold xliii. Common
Quality Assurance Facilitators can also be trained.

8.00 Converting Certified Organic Farm Commodities into High Value Brands;

8.10 A unique state level umbrella brand would be developed for the organic
products justifying and qualifying the statutory standards under certified regimes
under GGC, PGS and other systems of organic certification. The farm commodities
when converted to high value brands fetches higher market premiums. Farmers
have been genius to develop such unique selling points (USPs)xliv.

8.20 The conversion process from commodities to brands requires standardized

production processes, bulk aggregations, and managing fair average qualities of the
produce, following certification, traceability, collective marketing etc…..these
operations are part of organic farming due to the four cardinal principles of organic
farmingxlv. The organic farming as envisioned in this policy document shall
accelerate the process of brand building with appropriate logo like “India
Organicxlvi” “PGS Organicxlvii”.

9.00 State Organic Mission:

9.10 The new policy would be implemented in a mission mode, for this to take deep
roots in shortest possible time a state mission on organic farming (appropriately
names? May be ……………………Mission on Organic Farming) would be
instituted immediately to provide an umbrella organization institutionalizing efforts
promoting organic farming in the state. Such mission would be chaired by Minister of

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Agriculture under the patronage of Chief Minister of the state. The mission would be
headed by a full time professional with requisite expertise and experience as Mission
Director drawn from within the government system or outside.

9.20 The mission would be the implementing agency within the Ministry of
Agriculture with a full team of professionals on all aspects of organic farming. The
mission would work in all districts in the identified niches and shall develop full scale
operational facilities at district, block and cluster levelxlviii.

9.30 The state organic mission would create an enabling environment within the new
policy domain and shall encourage the organic producers by holding district and
state level competitions, institute awardsxlix, the mission would also organize annual
events like regional, state, national, international growers conferences, seminars,
symposiums, workshops, exposure tours and jaivik hats for all the stakeholders
engaged in organic farming. Ascertaining the functionality within one month time the
mission document will be prepared detailing its objectives, Organogram, thrust area,
geographical spread, key activities, working strategies, resource mobilization plan,
budgetary provisions, funding options, action plan for the approval of the authorities.

10.00 Developing Organic Producers’ Institutions

10.10 Building Linkages: The new policy attempts to emancipate primary

producers from the clutches of unproductive and unfriendly channels of markets and
encourages setting up such institutions that provide end – to – end solutions for
backward and forward linkages, knowledge and financial linkages to meet the
challenge.

10.11 Backward Linkages with Primary Organic Producers: The policy, taking
cognizance of the recent developments in the field of retail management and
increased interest of organized sector and corporate giants and implication thereof
on the small and marginal primary producers of the organically produced
commodities and those involved in the unorganized retail especially of NTFPs,
MFPs, herbs, medicinal and aromatics and other products from the natural or default
organics, emphasize the urgent and immediate need for setting up institutions and
processes that are inclusive in nature. It is worth recognizing that the organic food
and other products are produced by small and marginal farmers and at the other end
of the chain are consumed by rich people who can afford to pay higher prices for
such products, however, the benefits are not accrued by the primary producers. The
certification to qualify for organic standards, collection, aggregation, bulking, sorting,
grading, packing and other operations necessary to place these products in the
hyper markets requires specialized operations, hence new policy pays due emphasis
to build such “organic producers’ collectives” to establish and strengthen back –
end operations of the organic value chain.

10.12 Forward Linkages with Local, Regional, National and International

Markets: A whole range of front – end operations are required for appropriate
placement of organic produce in the hyper markets, moreover, the GGC and PGS
requires collective marketing under an umbrella brand, the organic producers’
collectives engaged in back – end operations would be the right choice of institutions
to work in partnership with hyper markets and enter the value chain to the utmost

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benefits of the primary producers. Fair trade practices, bulk supplies, speciality
products and intermediaries and derivatives require scientific operations to augment
and optimize benefits. MP State Agriculture Marketing Board would be directed l to
provide separate market shades for the organic produce to avoid any chances of
commingling with non – organic produce. The Mandi would also be directed to notify
such arrangements to attract the buyers from all across nation to enter in the Mandi
for organic produce. The arrangement shall then develop market niches within state.

10.13 Linkages for Technology Management: Organic farming is as much a

technologic centric issue, the quality of product depends on the quality of inputs,
appropriate processes within the ambit of the statutory standards and management
of the operations to avoid contamination and commingling with non – organic
produce. The new policy understands the technology needs of the systematic and
scientific organic farming and imbibes the spirit of building linkages between primary
producers and R & D institutions.

10.14 Financial Linkages: The large scale operations would require fresh
investments both public and private, the financial linkages between the institutions of
primary organic producers and the financial institutions like CCB, nationalized banks,
RRBs, MFIs, NABARD and host of other institutions would be encouraged to enter in
to financial agreements with primary organic producers institution to kick start the
process.

11.00 State Level Organic Farming Research and Development Institute:

11.10 Developing local, regional and state level facilities to impart short-term
courses: Based on CBNA using 3600 feedback loop local, regional and state level
facilities would be created to take on the task of imparting skill-building trainings
through short courses. The Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVKs) and the Farmers’ Training
Centres of Department would be encouraged to start Organic Farming Development
Programs (ODPs) for rural youth to take up organic farming as key economic activity
for their future vocation. A dedicated and specialized institute under the aegis of
“………………………………………. Institute of Organic Farming Research and
Development” with technical and infrastructural facility within state offering such
services would be established as a key initiative under the new policy domain. An
institute of international repute would be established within 1 year of the policy
implementation.

11.20 Capacity Building Need Assessment: The new policy shall give utmost
priority to capacity building need assessment at all levels of all stakeholders to
understand current status of skill sets possessed by the key personnel. A gap
analysis would help estimate the capacity building needs and to develop a trained
cadre of food processing experts and personnel. The indigenous knowledge and
innovation of the farmers will be validated, recognized and promoted.

11.30 Handholding Support: The vocational training institutes or R & D

establishment associated with Organic Farming would be encouraged to extend
handholding support to the new initiatives during the early phase of the projects.
Besides, a special Organic Farming Mission would enable the new policy to hire
specialist Advisors and Consultants on task basis to provide such support from time-

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to-time. Farmer-to-Farmer transfer of technology and hand-holding will be actively
promoted.

11.40 On-line end-to-end solutions: Information technology enabled services

(ITES) like e2bli (electronic to business) and b2blii (business to business) portals
would be established dovetailing with “Vision 2007 every village a knowledge
centre” of Government of India. The on-line end-to-end solution on “e-sanchar”
through wireless telephony would accelerate the pace of converting hitherto
weakness and threats in to opportunities and strengths as depicted in the Policy
Vision in the state. The new policy would harness the hidden potential of front age
information technology (IT) and advise State Organic Mission to develop a dedicated
websiteliii, in fact this would be a statutory requirement for the state level CB to
develop and manage on – line database of all the organic growers in different
categories and shall be available in public domain. Practicing Organic farmers
familiar with internet/ ITES would always be on the board of such initiatives.

11.50 Developing state – of – art and futuristic facilities for higher learning,
research and development in the field of organic farming:

11.50.1 To safeguard the future and make further advancement in the organic
farming portfolio, constant research and development would be utmost important.
Academic and professional institutions would be advised to start fresh higher
education courses in the field of Organic Farming and its allied activities. The new
policy would envisage a dedicated institution of higher learning in the name of
………………………National University of Organic Agriculture to establish at an
appropriate place where the heritage of organic farming and active interest of
scientific academia and professionals deemed enticing. The policy commits
establishing such facility within 1 year of the policy implementation.

11.50.2 The new policy would encourage the school education to include Organic
farming as new stream of Knowledge in the curricula. The board of secondary
education may then start separate stream on Organic Agriculture in their syllabi.

12.00 Convergence to Optimize the Efforts:

12.10 The new policy envisages public – private – community partnership to

establish and strengthen the organic farming as the harbinger of new orbits of growth
in the farm economy. The Ministry of Agriculture and MP Rajya Krishak Aayog in the
state will coordinate all efforts to dovetail programs, projects, schemes from within
the state with all relevant departments like RD and PR, horticulture and food
processing, animal husbandry and veterinary, forest, urban development water
resources, energy and school education etc….

12.20 The State Organic Mission (to be names appropriately) would publish the
details of all the schemes programs and initiatives encouraging organic agriculture
by Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India. Besides programs and schemes
steered by NPOP, especial projects like Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojna (RKVY),
programs launched and steered by National Rainfed Area Authority, donor funded
initiatives etc…. would also provide the required resources to meet the targeted
estimates.

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12.30 Looking to the potential for job creation in situ and prospects of the
proliferation of organic input, service, technology back stopping, certification, quality
testing and assurance system at both ends of production processes, processing
industry for organically produced commodities, collective marketing, and all other
aspects of organic farming, special efforts would be made to bring in fresh
investments from both private / corporate sources from within state, country and
abroad.

12.40 Formation of Joint Liability Groups is an ideal credit delivery channel, which
takes care of the problem of collateral. NABARD pilot project may be extended to
organic cultivation intensive areas. Capacity building of bankers in the realm of
organic farming may be required. To begin with it may be started in intensively
cultivated areas. This may lead to credibility to the organic farming system, and
encourage banks to take up a few pilot projects on their ownliv.

12.50 The Department of Farmers’ Welfare and Agriculture Development shall

continue with renewed vigour and budgetary outlays under its program of
Development of Organic and Sustainable Agriculture (DOSA) and shall expand
many activities identified and found necessary under the obligatory fulfilment of the
state commitment under the new policy domain.

13.00 Incentives:

13.10 Incentivising Stakeholders: All incentives as declared by the state

government under the provisions of incentives to the stakeholder under the MP State
Food Processing Policy – 2008 shall be extended to the primary producers,
processors, marketers, R & D agencies and others engaged in Organic Farming in
the state. These provisions would be dovetailed with new the MP State Organic
Farming Policy 2010 for the purpose of avoiding duplication on one hand and
encouraging organic farming in the state on the other hand. The new policy delves
on instituting a “State Organic Farming Fund” to be managed by state organic
mission. The fund could garner support primarily from regular budgetary allocations
of the department of farmers welfare and agriculture development, a minimum of
20% of the budget could allocated to the activities approved by the State Organic
Mission, besides this, allocation from the Mandi Board cess regimelv, carbon credits
earned through various interventions and other such untied funds that may be
utilized for extending grants and subsidies to popularize organic farming in the state.

13.20 MP State Agriculture Marketing Board Tax moratorium for producers and
intermediaries promoting organic farming: In line with such exemptions extended
to producers and others engaged in production processes of perishableslvi shall be
extended to producers of certified organic produce.

13.30 Nutrient Value Based and / or Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) based
compensation for production, promotion and use of organic manures, soil
additives: The new policy is inclined to induce the soil heath parameters to the crop
nutrient subsidy regime. Organic carbon plays major role in biological activity and
fertility of the soil. Indian soil ecosystems are very dynamic due to its sub-tropical
climate, resulting rapid degradation of organic matter in these soils. Soil organic

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carbon content up to 1.5 - 2.0 % increases soil porosity that supports growth of the
soil micro – organisms. This increases availability of different nutrients to the plant,
resulting in better crop yield. Thus organic carbon is a true indicator of the soil
health. Also it is true that soils with sufficient organic carbon in it definitely contains
other major elements like Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium in more available
form. Despite complications to measure the SOC, policy believes that there are
sufficient technological advancements that may help measure the SOC with ease
and efficiencylvii. The state may decide a subsidy regimelviii on production and use of
organic manures based on such empirical measures.

13.40 Compensation for Certification Fee: The new policy shall compensate
registered organic producers by subsidizing 25 – 75% of the certification fee under
individual farm certification, GGC and facilitate the free membership of PGS. Then
state may them claim all such subsides from Ministry of Agriculture, GOI under
appropriate scheme or programlix.

13.50 Technology Support Subsidy: Technologies for production, processing,

storage, documentation, testing, traceability, impact assessment of the organic
farming on overall agro – ecology would require state funds, special projects would
be encouraged with state grants. The primary producers would be given technology
support under appropriate programs or special organic area development program.
The funds for such initiatives would be dovetailed from RKVY, NRAA, National
Mission on sustainable Agriculture and state sponsored schemes from within the
departmental funds.

13.60 Transport Subsidy: The organic produce comes from hinterlands and far-
flung remote areas, the perishable nature and shorter shelf life, issues of
contamination and commingling, shortage of adequate and appropriate storage are
some of the bottlenecks in developing the organic farming as remunerative
initiatives. To deal with such issues the new policy opined that an appropriate
transport subsidy may be offered to primary producers or groups, institutions and
individuals facilitating remunerative marketing there of. Such subsidies may be as
applicable in case of State’ Food Processing Policy 2008. The long haul subsides
may be garnered from NPOP and or APEDA as the case may be under export
promotion schemes of GOI.

13.70 Subsides as applicable in case of bio gas and gobar gas: The non
conventional energy department / corporation, MP state Agro Industries Corporation,
KVIC, National Board on Biogas extends subsidies for development of bio / gobar
gas units of both small and large size. Such subsidies and program implementation
shall be dovetailed with organic farming under the new policy regime. Efforts would
be made to develop a strong bio / gobar gas based power generation portfolio with
twin objectives of producing captive energy at local level and produce high quality
enriched certified organic manure. The energy generation may accrue and earn
carbon credits and convert them in to carbon funds for future financing of the
program giving impetus to organic farming in the state. The new policy enunciates its
firm commitment to develop model dairy farms, dry dairy farms, Gaushalas and small
scale demonstrable models for small and marginal farmers in any socio – economic
category with appropriate state aid and or centrally sponsored schemes applicable to
this intervention.

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13.80 Fee charges for capacity building: Adequate funds are available with NCOF
for training and capacity building of the stakeholder under the NPOP and other
programs, the primary organic producers and their institutions, ICS institutions, PGS
institutions and groups, CBs, VOs, FPS, CSOs, R & D establishments shall be given
adequate trainings with state funds dovetailed from various sources. The CB funds
would be allocated from the ATMA funds and agencies managing ATMA in various
blocks and districts under PPP mode shall be advised to give priority to such
initiatives.

13.90 Technical consultancy charges and fee: Special fund would be created
under RKVY to give impetus to organic farming in the state, any agency aspiring to
higher technical consultancies for the purpose of developing / formulating projects on
one or many aspects of organic farming would be given state support to accelerate
the process of project development and project cycle management with adequate
and appropriate technical inputs.

13.91 Sponsorships for higher learning in the field of organic farming to rural
youth: Literate and educated rural youth would be the critical mass to be quickly
bring on the board to accelerate the pace of policy implementation, generate
meaningful livelihood and employment opportunities, developing a cadre of
independent trained and professional service providers to the millions of organic
producers. The policy enshrines with the spirit of developing the future of the state by
sponsoring rural youth to the institutions of higher learning for graduating in the
different fields of organic farming. The certificate, diploma, bachelor and masters’
courses would be started with these sponsored students. The policy would support
such institutions providing opportunities for higher learning in the filed of organic
farming.

14.00 Consumer Awareness:

14.10 The new policy consolidating the principles of health and principle of care lx
shall abide to the public health and create an environment of trust and care for the
ultimate consumers. The policy would lay emphasis on consumer awareness about
the organic products and encourage consumers to use more and more organics.
This in effect would be a marketing strategy for the organic products as well.

14.20 A rational media mix would be devised and state and national electronic and
print media would be encouraged to undertake the issue of organic farming and its
impacts on food basket and environment conducive to human habitat.

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 Strategic Action plan for policy implementation

S. No. Strategic Action Action by Time

1 Formation of a state level Policy Director, DoFW Immediately after the

Implementation Committee &Ag D policy approval

2 Developing a detailed report on establishing Policy With 1 Month of the

State Organic Mission Implementation Committee formation
Committee

3 Strengthening the State Organic MoFW & Within 3 month of the

Certification Agency AgDev policy approval

4 Establishing State Institute of Organic MoFW & Within 1 year of the

Farming Research and Development AgDev policy approval

5 Establishing A National University of MoFW & Within 1 year of the

Organic Agriculture at an appropriate place AgDev policy approval

6 Provision of Incentives to organic growers, Policy

operators and other stakeholders as per the Implementation
provisions of the approved policy Committee

1. Develop Annual Action Plan and Budget State Organic Within 1 Month of the
for all the provisions Mission constitution of the State
Organic Mission

2. Develop Program Guidelines for all the State Organic On approval of the State
stakeholders Mission Organic Plan and
provision of the separate
budget

3. Deployment of the professionally State Organic Within 1 Month of the

trainned, technical and competent staff Mission constitution of the State
sourced from open market in case it is not Organic Mission
available from within the existing staff.

3. Capacity Building of the officials and State Organic Immediately after the
Professionals deployed in the State Mission Mission deployment of the staff.

4. Formation of Inter – Ministerial State Organic Within 1 Month of the

Coordination Committee comprising of Mission constitution of the State
ministries and or departments of Finance, Organic Mission
Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry,
Fisheries, Rural Development and

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 S. No. Strategic Action Action by Time

Panchayats, State Watershed Mission,

MPDPIP, MPRLP, Forest, State Forest
corporation, State Agro – Industries
Corporation, State Seeds Corporation, SAUs,
State Organic Certification Agency, APEDA,
NABARD, Department of Renewable
Energy, State Mandi Board, selected NGOs,
representatives from trade and industry
engaged in organic agriculture and
representatives from organic farming
community.

7. Developing status paper on the organic State Organic Commissioning the study
input and nutrient based subsidy scheme Mission to experts identified by
for the deliberation in a National Level the Mission.
Workshop

8. Developing a dedicated website of the State State Organic Within 1 Month of the
Organic Mission to enable the organic Mission constitution of the State
farmers and operators to start E2B and B2B Organic Mission

9. Develop a draft of Organic Farming Act for MoFW & AgD Within 3 Months of the
public consultation, expert consultation and to approval of the policy
be tabled in the State Assembly to legislate
the same.

(on the lines of the Act passed by

Government of Mizoram)

10. Develop the State Plan for Organic Concern Immediately after the first
Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries department as meeting of the Committee
and Forest based Organic Produce, per the
guidelines of the
Inter –
Ministerial
Coordination
Committee

11. Organize Annual Events like National State Organic As per the approved State
Organic Farming Fair, State and district level Mission plan and program
events

12. Establish Organic Haat, Dedicated Auction APMCs Within 6 Month approval
Shade in all the major APMC premises of the guidelines and
programs of the State
Mission

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 S. No. Strategic Action Action by Time

13. State Awards to Organic Growers State Organic Annually

Mission

i -1
The agriculture scenario of the state suggest that the inorganic fertilizer use in terms of NPK is 52 kg ha as
-1 th -1
against national average of 89.8 kg ha and ¼ of agriculturally advanced states like Punjab (210 kg NPK ha ).
-1 -1
The agro – chemical use remain as low as 0.178 kg ha as against national average of 0.44 kg ha . The state’
agrochemical consumption is 10 – 25 times below Japan and USA, which are the two largest importers of
organic food.
ii
MiC – Methyl iso Cyanide a chemical compound used by Union Carbide to produce insecticide in its
production facility at Bhopal, MP got released on the ill fated night of December 3 1984 directly killing
hundreds of inhabitants around the factory and make thousands, blind and chronic ill forever. The generations
born after the catastrophe remain challenged due to the long lasting ill effects of the incidence and give a
living testimony of such evils.
iii
Incidence have been reported from many places wherein indiscriminate use of nasty agro – chemicals and
pesticides have killed wild life, natural flora and fauna e.g. peacocks (national bird) were killed in large number
in of the district in MP eating treated seeds from the fields;
iv
Refer definitions for the crops and varieties of point of origin
v
Refer MP state Food Processing Policy 2007
vi
MSW – Municipal Solid Waste of biodegradable nature
vii
Refer list of inputs in the restricted or contraband list as per the NPOP, NOP or any other standard under
which the organic certification is applied for;
viii
The live demonstration of such efforts are available within state like Malpani Trust Farm, Bajwada, the
Khategaon district Dewas, MP. The word NATUECO derives from words Nature and Ecology, wherein all the
processes adopted in this system of farming are in complete harmony with nature.
ix
Tribal Areas as per PESA Notification;
x
The facilities created to house the stray animals and managed by civic bodies in the urban, semi – urban and
rural areas;
xi
Refer The Mizoram Organic Farming Act 2004 Act 6 of 2004 passed by Mizoram Assembly on 21/07/2004;
xii
Palash - Beauta monosperma(linn) also known as " Flames in the natural groves and forest areas produce
the flowers could be used as feedstock for chromaculture;
xiii
The program started with financial assistance and support of use of organic inputs, developing bio – villages,
popularizing new compost techniques like NADEP, use of bio pesticides etc.. the efforts got impetus by
converting over 3130 villages as bio villages, decline in fertilizer use in these villages by 25% in terms of
purchase cost, 38% in terms of reduction in cost on pesticides, installation of >31000 bio gas units, adopting
the practices of organic certification by Gram Sabha. The state received many accolades and developed model
villages like Malgaon in Khandwa district visited by many dignitaries. Information collected from presentations
on organic farming by Director of Agriculture, MP 2004 – 05;
xiv
Presentation on Organic Farming by Director of Agriculture 2004 – 05;
xv
Jaivik Haat - a special state sponsored orgnic fair wherein organic producers and other stakeholders were
encouraged to display their products, such events were started by DoAg in 2003;
xvi
Refer Annex Principles of Organic Farming as postulated by IFOAM; The four principles namely Principle of
Health, Principle of Ecology, Principle of Fairness and Principle of Care could ensure the sustainable agriculture
in the first place and make the living earth a better place to leave for all future generations.
xvii
GAP – Good Agriculture Practices - The GOI has entered in to developing India specific GAP under the aegis
of Bureau of Indian Standards postulating crop wise region wise good agriculture practices and developing
enabling mechanisms to make these statutory conditions for trans – national trade of agriculture commodities;
xviii
Refer APEDA report 2006 – 07 showing a total production of organic commodities 585970 MT, total
quantity exported 19456 MT, value of total export RS 3012.4 million, total area under certified organic
production 339113 ha with total number of organic farmers 141904 across country.

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xix
Climate debate cannot ignore small farmers – Pandurang Hedge LEISA INDIA, June, 2009,
xx
Best Practices for Organic Policies CBFT, UNEP – UNCTAD 2008
xxi
CER – Certified Emission Reduction is measure of sequestered carbon variable in the long term;
xxii
Refer MP State Food Processing Policy 2007
xxiii
Shree Sandeep Bhargav, CEO, Oncecert Asia - Growers Group Certification
xxiv
Modern Concepts of Agriculture – Organic Agriculture – Dr. Rajendra Prasad, IARI, 2007
xxv
The Minister of Agriculture, GoMP has reiterated the issue and raised to constitute an Organic Authority
under the aegis of MoAg, GOI refer letter # 4867 dated Jan 08, 2010;
xxvi
The MP State Organic Certification Agency has been incorporated in 2008 and under the early stage of
development;
xxvii
Personal communication Dr. G.S. Kaushal Ex Director of Agriculture, GoMP
xxviii
GM – Genetically modified organisms are any way contraband under certified organic regime
xxix
The State reiterates it s commitment to rationalize the cost of production under organic regime and shall
encourage the farmers to produce inputs like soil and plant nutrition supplements (manures and Composts of
all types), pest control agents, seeds, varieties and other technologies. The farmers would be encouraged to
develop their local germplasm, varieties, seeds and continue using strategies like developing gene banks, seed
banks;
xxx
The state sees the opportunity of re - designating the place of Neem Tree (Azardiricta indica linn) as
Kalpavirksha – the celestial tree that blesses the grower with its divine qualities. Neem plays a similar role in
organic farming, the Vedic scripture e.g. Surpalas - Vrukshayurveda deliberates on some such species like
Giripushpa, Neem etc…
xxxi
PPCP – Public – Private – Community Partnership Mode shall provide an opportunity to the rural
communities to work for the urban areas and charge for the environmental services, besides making the
meaningful use of bio waste generated by the urban societies.
xxxii
A not for profit organization working in the urban areas providing community toilet facilities in many urban
and semi – urban areas;
xxxiii
Contamination of surface water with heavy metals, POPs and other anthropotoxic elements - as in the case
of Bada Talab of Bhopal, wherein the affluent and heavy metals from the catchment pollutes the lake and
destroys aquatic life;
xxxiv
“Let our cattle (cows) provide prosperity to us” – Rigveda 1.90
xxxv
The Celestial Cow that blesses and grants prosperity to worshiper;
xxxvi
Five products of cow origin namely milk, whey, butter oil, dung and urine all put to gather makes
Panchgyva and has been used in communion as magic input to enhance soil and crop productivity and pest
control agent;
xxxvii
Amrut pani is prepared by mixing 10 kg cow dung, 250 gm ghee and 500 gm honey. The resultant mixture
is stirred, allowed to ferment and diluted in 200 litres of water. It is used, after proper stirring, for seed
dressing and seedling treatment. When sprayed on fields and plants, it enriches the soil and improves fertility
(Deshpande, 2003).
xxxviii
As per the Cattle Census of 2004;
xxxix
The Minister of Farmers’ Welfare and Agriculture Development, GoMP has already requested GOI (refer
letter # 4866 dated Jan 08, 2010) to support establishment of a Bovine Research Institute under the aegis of
ICAR and state shall provide all the possible support to such initiative. The issue was raised by the Minister of
Agriculture during the 81 Annual General Meeting of ICAR;
xl
Institutions like Deen Dayal Reseach Institue (DRI), Chitrakoot district Satna already persuing research on
indegineous cow breeds would be supported and strengthen to continue with their efforts.
xli
There are examples wherein schemes provides subsidies for purchase of pedigree bulls or purchase of farm
machines, however no schemes are in vogue to encourage the smallholder to purchase cows and bullocks;
xlii
Rural Business Hubs – a scheme of GOI under the MOPR and CII would be an appropriate platform for this to
take shape;
xliii
Refer para 7.00 of the new policy
xliv
Chinnor rice , Sehore Wheat, Pigeonpea Dal from Narsinghpur, Papaya from Badwani are some of the bright
examples of the brand building process in the field of farm commodities;
xlv
Refer IFOAM Principles cited elsewhere in the policy document;

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See Logo in the Annexure section;
xlvii
See log in the Annexure section;
xlviii
A separate strategy note detailing the State Organic Mission would be developed in consultation with
experts from with the government and outside
xlix
The State honors like “Rajya Jaivik Shree” under various categories like for primary organic producers,
scientists, development professionals, trade and industry partners, State Officials and Public Workers, the
Award Investiture Function would be organized and or coincides with “Balram Jayanti” every year, the state
would also declare the model Jaivik Gram as “Jaivik Tirtha” and shall use these villages for the exposure
trainings and demonstration sites;
l
Such demands have been raised by organic growers from time to time in the state, the separate
arrangements would encourage all such farmers to continue their efforts and reap the appropriate prices with
the Mandi premises
li
e 2 b - Electronic to business
lii
b 2 b – Business to business
liii
Possible website could be www.mpjaivik.org
liv
Credit issues for organic farmers - NABARD Consultancy Services (NABCONS), Report prepared within the
framework of the Technical Cooperation Project on Organic Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India and Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (TCP/IND/3003)
lv
The MP State Agriculture Marketing Board cess contributes a portion to rural road funds, allocates resources
for infrastructure development and for conservation and development of bovines in the state to MP Rajya
Gausamvardhan Board.
lvi
Refer Food Processing Policy 2008 for provisions applicable to production, processing, marketing of
perishables
lvii
Soil Organic Carbon Detection Kit (SOCDK) developed at BARC, ideally a quick, accurate and field test will be
able to guide the farmer for this purpose.
lviii
The State may have to set up a special task force of experts in this stream of science, agriculture economists
and fertilizer pricing experts to delve on the subject and provide recommendations in a time bound fashion.
The state then may decide on ways and means for administering such pragmatic subsidy regime.
lix
Efforts may be made to approach GOI funds from Mission on Sustainable Agriculture;
lx
Refer four principles of organic farming as postulated by IFOAM

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