Knowledge of farmers regarding organic farming certification

Abstract

In the last few years, the trend of organic food is increasing. By food appearing, it cannot be detected that it is organic. So, here organic food is required to be certified. Organic certificate is a proof document that shows the quality of organically grown food. This is the assurance of pure organically grown food. In India, there are 29 agencies under National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) that provides the organic certification. So keeping the importance of organic certification in mind, this present study was conducted in four villages of two districts of Haryana state viz. Sirsa and Hisar. Total 240 farmer respondents (30 males and 30 females from each village) were selected randomly for the study. Results about knowledge on organic certification showed that on average 31.5 percent of the respondents had knowledge on organic certification agency and standards. On average 23.8 percent respondents had knowledge about certified organic products followed by transition period (23.28%) and certifying process (15.8%).