Organic Framing

Group Certification

• Majority of agriculture practitioners worldwide are small holders and are often located in remote areas with long travel times from one place to another.
• Furthermore, the overall revenue from their agricultural production is usually too small to allow a viable farm inspection by external inspection body for each farmer.
• Based on these observations, an idea was generated to develop Grower Group Certification (CGC) where group certification refers to the certification of a group of producers who are in close proximity to one another, whose farms are uniform in most ways and who are organized under one management and marketing system (IFOAM).
• According to NPOP, certification of an organized group of producers, processors and exports with similar farming and production systems and which are in geographical proximity.