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52 Profiles on Agroecology: PGS – Enabling organic production system for small holders

Year of publication 2017

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 4p.

Author Gupta, A.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Series title 52 Profiles on Agroecology

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) have been implemented in India for the last decade to promote Organic Farming systems. They were introduced since India has over 400 million small holder farmers who are unable to afford complex third party certifications on their own. It was initially lead by various NGOs and today has become a major mechanism to guarantee organic produce even by the Government of India.

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