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Srinagar: Principal Secretary, Agriculture Production and Farmers Welfare Department, Navin Kumar Choudhary on Wednesday chaired a meeting of State Seed Sub Committee at Civil Secretariat Srinagar regarding the formulation of nodal agency for certification of organic products in J&K.
After threadbare discussion over the need for creation of certification agency for organic products, Principal Secretary gave his approval for the creation of the agency. A notification to this end will be issued soon.
While giving outline of the agency, Navin Kumar Choudhary said that the agency is known as J&K Organic Products Certification Agency, Kashmir and J&K Organic Products Certification Agency Jammu. He said the agency will certify all the agriculture, horticulture and dairy organic products.
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Representative image of millet seeds. Photo: IFPRI/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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Jaipur: The Narendra Modi government’s draft Seed Bill, 2019, has once again caught headlines with farmers’ leader Rakesh Tikait bringing it up during his recent call to cut power lines to 16 states if the Centre does not address farmers’ demands.
Tikait had stated that if the farmersâ movement had not taken place, the government would have enacted the Seed Bill by now, in an effort to benefit private seed companies.