Spices and Condiments

Certification of organic spices

• Certification for organic spice farms is an essential pre-requisite for marketing their produce, especially in the international markets. The Government of India is in the process of setting up indigenous certification programmes, since there is no domestic certifying agency in India. However, the offices of certain international certification agencies do operate in India.
• For timely inspection at optimum cost, the Board has access to the services of trained inspectors from both governmental and non¬governmental organisations. These inspectors were trained in 1998 by the members of IFOAM in India. They will commence work once the domestic certification body is set up and approved by the competent authorities.