APEDA to ensure that agri exports meet global standards
Updated: Mar 27, 2014 02:44:47pm
New Delhi, Mar 27 (KNN) The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) plans to get an evaluation done of certification bodies as per National Programme for organic production (NPOP) to ensure that India's agricultural exports meet global standards.
The move is certainly timely because on Wednesday, the European Union’s Standing Committee on Plant Health decided to impose a ban on Indian mangoes and some vegetables from May due to concerns over the presence of pests and insects in consignments arriving from India.
The committee decided to ban the import of Arbi (colocasia), mango, bitter gourd, egg plant and snake gourd from India owing to “significant shortcomings in the phytosanitary certification system.”
According to reports, quarantine pests, mainly insects like non-European fruit flies were found in 207 consignments of fruits and vegetables from India to the EU in 2013. The potential introduction of new pests could pose a threat to EU agriculture and production, hence the decision. A revision of the ban will be done before December 2015.
Of India’s total agricultural exports of Rs 120,000 crore in 2012-13, flowers accounted for Rs 423 crore; Basmati rice Rs 19,390 crore; Non-Basmati Rs 14,421 crore; and Guargam Rs 21,287 crore, according to DGCIS (Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics) figures.
The Agricultural and Processed Food products Export Development Authority (APEDA) is an export promotion organization under Ministry of Commerce and Industries, Government of India. It is mandated with the responsibility of promotion and development of the export of its scheduled products.
Top APEDA products exported from India are Basmati Rice, Guargum, bovine cuts, rice, maize, wheat, groundnuts, jiggery, etc.
Grading and Standardization plays a vital role in orderly marketing of agricultural produce which is the only tool in safeguarding the consumer interest as well as providing remunerative price to the farmers commensurate with the quality.
The Government of India has launched AGMARK grading certification programme for certain essential commodities like oil, ghee, butter, ground spices, honey, atta and besan etc. under the provision of Agricultural Produce Grading and Marking Act of 1937.
AGMARK is a certification mark employed on agricultural products in India, assuring that they conform to a set of standards approved by the Directorate of Marketing and Inspection, an agency of the Government of India. The AGMARK is legally enforced in India by the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act of 1937 (and amended in 1986). The present AGMARK standards cover quality guidelines for 205 different commodities spanning a variety of Pulses, cereals, essential oils, vegetable oils, Fruits and Vegetables, and semi-processed products. (KNN/ES)
The move is certainly timely because on Wednesday, the European Union’s Standing Committee on Plant Health decided to impose a ban on Indian mangoes and some vegetables from May due to concerns over the presence of pests and insects in consignments arriving from India.
The committee decided to ban the import of Arbi (colocasia), mango, bitter gourd, egg plant and snake gourd from India owing to “significant shortcomings in the phytosanitary certification system.”
According to reports, quarantine pests, mainly insects like non-European fruit flies were found in 207 consignments of fruits and vegetables from India to the EU in 2013. The potential introduction of new pests could pose a threat to EU agriculture and production, hence the decision. A revision of the ban will be done before December 2015.
Of India’s total agricultural exports of Rs 120,000 crore in 2012-13, flowers accounted for Rs 423 crore; Basmati rice Rs 19,390 crore; Non-Basmati Rs 14,421 crore; and Guargam Rs 21,287 crore, according to DGCIS (Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics) figures.
The Agricultural and Processed Food products Export Development Authority (APEDA) is an export promotion organization under Ministry of Commerce and Industries, Government of India. It is mandated with the responsibility of promotion and development of the export of its scheduled products.
Top APEDA products exported from India are Basmati Rice, Guargum, bovine cuts, rice, maize, wheat, groundnuts, jiggery, etc.
Grading and Standardization plays a vital role in orderly marketing of agricultural produce which is the only tool in safeguarding the consumer interest as well as providing remunerative price to the farmers commensurate with the quality.
The Government of India has launched AGMARK grading certification programme for certain essential commodities like oil, ghee, butter, ground spices, honey, atta and besan etc. under the provision of Agricultural Produce Grading and Marking Act of 1937.
AGMARK is a certification mark employed on agricultural products in India, assuring that they conform to a set of standards approved by the Directorate of Marketing and Inspection, an agency of the Government of India. The AGMARK is legally enforced in India by the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act of 1937 (and amended in 1986). The present AGMARK standards cover quality guidelines for 205 different commodities spanning a variety of Pulses, cereals, essential oils, vegetable oils, Fruits and Vegetables, and semi-processed products. (KNN/ES)
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