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‘Expensive organic certification has stunted growth of Bengal farmers’

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Posted: Dec 23, 2009 at 0228 hrs IST

Kolkata “The state government should set up its own certification agencies. If there are bulk demands from various quarters, the government can set up its own certification process to minimise costs,” said Somenath Ghosh, chairman and managing director, National Research Development Corporation, New Delhi, while interacting with agricultural companies, farmers and representatives of the state government at the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) on Tuesday.

Pointing out the manner in which exorbitant costs in organic certification have retarted the growth of state farmers, Central representatives insisted that the state government should come up with a separate process for granting organic certification. Expressing the state’s limitations, Ganesh Barman, director, Department of Agriculture, said: “The laws for testing various chemicals and laboratories are available at the Central level. It is difficult for the state to have its own certification process.”

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