Udhagamandalam: To rope in small tea growers to practise organic farming, the district administration launched a drive, ‘Scope Certification’, at the Kinnakorai industrial cooperative (Indco) tea factory on Thursday.
As the district counts for more acreage and more number of farmers cultivating tea, the district administration has launched the programme in association with the Indcoserve, the apex body of the 16 Indco tea factories in the district, and the horticulture department.
Indcoserve CEO Supriya Sahu inaugurated the programme in the presence of collector J Innocent Divya and senior officials from the horticulture department.
“The district leads in the number of farmers practising organic farming in the state. As many as 4,800 farmers in the district were issued Scope certificate for the first year conversion by the Tamil Nadu organic certification department under the collective farming scheme,” said Shiva Subramaniam Samraj, a joint director in the horticulture