National Centre on Organic farming
NPOF
is being implemented by National Centre of Organic Farming at Ghaziabad and its
six Regional Centres at Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Hisar, Imphal, Jabalpur and
Nagpur. Besides working for realisation of targets under NPOF, NCOF and RCOFs
are also performing specific roles in promotion of organic farming.
Specific
activities of NCOF/RCOFs
- To
collaborate all stakeholders of organic farming in the country and abroad
and act as main information centre on various aspects of organic farming.
- Documentation
of indigenous knowledge and practices, compilation of integrated organic
packages and publication of technical literature in all the languages.
- Preparation
and publication of uniform and authentic training literature and training
course contents.
- Publication
of Biofertilizers and Organic Farming Newsletters for national and
international updates on quarterly and half yearly basis.
- To provide
necessary technical assistance to production units for quality production
of various organic inputs such as biofertilizers, composts etc.
- To serve as
data collection centre for biofertilizers and organic fertilizer
production, biofertilizer and organic fertilizers production units and
their production capacities and for details on total area under
certification and various crops being grown under organic management.
- To maintain
National and Regional culture collection bank of biofertilizer organisms
for supply to production units.
- Development,
procurement and efficacy evaluation of biofertilizer strains and mother
cultures.
- To act as
nodal quality control laboratory for analysis of biofertilizers and
organic fertilizers as per the requirement of Fertilizer Control Order.
- To provide
all sorts of technical assistance to implementing agencies for successful
implementation of project targets
Carbon smart technologies supported by scheme: Nodal quality-control laboratory for analysis of
biofertilizers and organic fertilizers
For more details
visit-
https://ncof.dacnet.nic.in/RTI/RTIASection4.pdf