Dimapur, April 12 (MExN): If the desired outcome emerges as being currently envisaged and processed by the State’s Department of Agriculture, then ginger, passion fruit, gum-rice and Kholar (Shed long beans) would very soon bear certification declaring its organic purity thereby launching the aforementioned produce into the export market, both national and international.
It was informed that Surveillance General Society (SGS), an international organic-produce certification authority based in Switzerland is currently processing the needful formalities towards declaring selected natural produce of Nagaland namely Ginger, Passion fruit and Kholar as organic (pure and untreated). According to sources from the agriculture department the certification would facilitate wide-scale export both national and international since non-certified organic produce are not approved for export by internal commercial norms. This certification also to a considerable extent protects a certified produce from dispute, patenting and external claims.
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