A Report on Participatory Guarantee System (PGS)

A Report on Participatory Guarantee System (PGS)

As on date 13-03-2020 and 14-03-2020 NABARD conducted a training program to the FPO CEO’s roles & responsibilities with the support of the Center for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA)/Resource Support Agencies (RSA) gave the training at St.Anns Generalate at Tarnaka, Hyderabad, here some resource persons take their sessions, resource persons are Dr. Ravi , Mr. Rambabu, Mrs. Padma, Mrs. Chandrakala, Mr. Srinivasulu and Mr. Satish to the POPI along with CEOs and BoD’s training to the FPO, on this part different POPIs, BoD’s and CEOs related the FPO are participated, on that MITHRA Foundation as POPI and their 4 FPO CEO’s attend that training. On this training part 3^rd session Mrs. Chandrakala madam starts the session on Participatory Guarantee System (PGS).

What is PGS is a quality assurance initiative that is locally relevant, emphasize the participation of stakeholders, including producers and consumers and operate outside the frame of third party certification, participation is an essential and dynamic part of PGS participation embodies the principle of collective responsibility for ensuring the organic integrity of the PGS. This collective responsibility is reflected through.

1.       Shared ownership of the PGS

2.       Stakeholder engagement in the development and operation process

3.      Understanding how the system works

4.      Direct communication between producers and consumers and other stakeholders

Transparency:

Transparency is created by having all stakeholders, including producers and consumers, aware of exactly how the guarantee system works to include the standards, the organic guarantee process (norms) with clearly defined documented system and how decisions are made. Through PGS we are selling our products in national networking, National Organic Program (NOP) in third-party certification.

 Individual or group of farmers getting PGS certificate, the minimum group is 5 to 10/15 members, that group represented by at one village in the first year they get PGS-India Green certificate, this the certificate validates for 2 years afterward PGS-India Organic, what is the use of this certificate consumers know about organic values of the products. At present every year 16% increase in organic farming, in India on and average 25% organic farming was increasing, under organic farming 690 processing units running with 20lakhs of farmers doing their business under PGS.

Under PGS lot of farmers start their production in an export manner also, by this process farmer gaining their profits without any wastage, under this PGS farmers/farmer groups they start their primary processing units with primary marketing, in primary marketing 2 ways farmer can sell their products in wholesale and white labeling manner in supply chain management.

The terms white label and private label can be used interchangeably. White labeling is when a product or service removes their brand and logo from the end product and instead uses the branding requested by the purchaser.

When you work with that Company, we start with you in the sales process. When you have a prospect who is interested in the various marketing services that we’re providing on your behalf, you’ll reach out to your dedicated Marketing Strategist. Our strategist will put together research on the prospect and their top two or three competitors, then have a preliminary conversation with the prospect about their goals and objectives and how we can help them. This entire experience happens under your brand name. They’ll never know that they’re talking with a That Company representative.

Wholesaler refers to the channel of distribution. The concept of Wholesale marketing works this way a manufacturer or producer of goods or products sells the product to a company which is, in turn a wholesaler. The company then sells the products or goods to the end-users or customers with the company's brand name.

As a wholesale distributor, you rely on retail customers to buy your products. Having these consistent customers allows you to keep your operations afloat. Still, it’s crucial that you consistently acquire new retail customers along the way so that you can grow your small business. At present 10 states with 28 companies have organic farming, by this PGS organic value chain development through third-party certificate.

Conclusion:

Organic farming usually increases species richness, having on average 30% higher species richness than conventional farming systems. However, the results were variable among studies and 16% of them actually showed a negative effect of organic farming on species richness, Organic farming is an alternative an agricultural system which originated early in the 20th century in reaction to rapidly changing farming practices. Certified organic agriculture accounts, an the integrated farming system that strives for sustainability, the enhancement of soil fertility and biological diversity while, with rare exceptions, prohibiting synthetic pesticides, antibiotics, synthetic fertilizers, genetically modified organisms, and growth hormones.