{"id":90130,"date":"2019-09-26T16:37:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T11:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10427"},"modified":"2019-09-26T16:37:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T11:07:55","slug":"participatory-guarantee-scheme-pgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/participatory-guarantee-scheme-pgs\/","title":{"rendered":"Participatory Guarantee Scheme (PGS)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>India\u2019s food safety regulator has said that Union Agriculture Ministry\u2019s Participatory Guarantee Scheme(PGS) should incentivise more farmers to grow organic food.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is Participatory Guarantee System (PGS)?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>PGS is an internationally applicable organic quality assurance system.<\/li><li>Participatory Guarantee System \u2013India (PGS-India) is a decentralised organic farming certification system.\u00a0<\/li><li>The system certifies organic products maintaining the requisite quality standards including ensuring that the cultivation and production process is done complying the standards laid down for organic product.<\/li><li>The scheme is implemented by the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Benefits of PGS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>PGS helps small and marginal farmers to easily get access to organic certification.<\/li><li>It is cost effective, hassle-free and most important of all farmer-friendly.<\/li><li>It helps in increasing domestic demand for organic produce.<\/li><li>It also provides training to farmers in the management of documents and fulfilment of requirements that are needed for the certification process.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Concerns under PGS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>PGS certification is only for farmers or communities that can organise and perform as a group within a village or a cluster of contiguous villages.<\/li><li>The individual farmers or groups of farmers smaller than five members are not covered under PGS.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:India\u2019s food safety regulator has said that Union Agriculture Ministry\u2019s Participatory Guarantee Scheme(PGS) should incentivise more farmers to grow organic food. Facts: What is Participatory Guarantee System (PGS)? PGS is an internationally applicable organic quality assurance system. Participatory Guarantee System \u2013India (PGS-India) is a decentralised organic farming certification system.\u00a0 The system certifies organic products maintaining&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/participatory-guarantee-scheme-pgs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Participatory Guarantee Scheme (PGS)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[7495],"class_list":["post-90130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-participatory-guarantee-system","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}