Over 14k hectares in Andaman & Nicobar Islands gets organic tag

Over 14,000 hectares area in Car Nicobar and Nancowry islands in the Union Territory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands has become Indias first large contiguous territory to be certified as organic under theCentre’s Large Area Certification (LAC) scheme.
Farming operations will be completely free from chemical inputs in this area like how it’s being done in the country’s fully organic stateSikkim.

India currently has several smaller clusters, accounting for more than 30lakh hectaresarea spread over many states, registered under organic certification as per the PGS-India certification programme where the areas having chemical input usage HISTORY are required to undergo a transition period of a minimum of 2-3 years to qualify as organic.

As per the international survey report (2021) on , India ranks fifth in terms of area and is at the top in terms of a total number of producers (the Base Year 2019).