Turmeric farm gets top rating
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 28, 2012:
Society General Surveillance (SGS) India Pvt Ltd has issued the First Conversion Scope Certificate to a turmeric farm located at Tiger Camp of Imphal East.
Mega Turmeric farming is currently undertaken at an area of about 1.75 hectares under the National Programme for Organic Production Standards.
The farming is being undertaken at the farm with the supervision and guidance of KVK Andro under Director of Extension Education of Central Agricultural University.
With audit works for the second conversion also completed by external experts recently, SGS is likely to issue the Second Conversion Scope Certificate to the turmeric farm soon.
The Third Scope Certificate is slated to be acquired in October 2012, after which this 1.75 hactare farmland will be declared as an 'organic farmland'.
After this certification, the turmeric produced from this farm will be rated as an organic product, which will be first of its kind in the whole State.
According to Subject Matter Specialist of KVK Andro, Dr Th Robindro, the organic turmeric seedlings were provided by Institute of Bio-resources and Sustainable Development (IBSD), Takyelpat.
Caretaker of the farm, T N andababu said, as demands for organic products are huge outside the State, there would not be any problem in marketing the product.
Nandababu is a progressive farmer who has already proved himself successful in tomato and fish farming in the past.