tailieunhanh - Market Opportunities and Challenges for Indian Organic Products

The major organic loading originates from human excreta, and is a complex mixture of fats, proteins, carbohydrates, lignin amino acids, sugars, celluloses, humic material and fatty acids. A large proportion of this organic material is in the form of both live and dead microorganisms which provide a large surface area ( m2 g-1 ) for sorption of hydrophobic organic residues and it is within this fraction that most synthetic organic compounds are located (ROGERS 1996). Waste waters and hence sewage sludges contain a wide variety of pathogens, which can be infectious for different species of animals and plants as well. | Market Opportunities and Challenges for Indian Organic Products Salvador V. Garibay1 and Katke Jyoti2 Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FIBL 1 and ACNielsen ORG-MARG2 February 2003 This study was funded by Swiss State Secretariat of Economic Affairs SECO 1 Objectives of the 2 INDIAN DOMESTIC Organic agriculture in Indian organic Producers exporters Most common organic products exported from Products for which Indian production has a comparative Reasons for unsold stock of organic Potential customers for organic products in the domestic Non-governmental organizations NGOs .11 Frame conditions of the organic market in Demand for Indian organic products in the domestic and export Supply. 20 3 THE INTERNATIONAL The international organic market Current trading of Indian organic products in the export Potential for organic products in the selected export Structure of sales channels in the selected export Obstacles for selling Indian organic products in the selected export markets and possible 4 SUMMARY AND 5 Market Opportunities and Challenges for Indian Organic Products 2 PREAMBLE The Swiss State Secretariat of Economic Affairs SECO has decided to support a project by Indian NGOs to set up an internationally recognized organic certification program. The main aim of the project is to improve the livelihood of small farmers by improving market access both domestic and international. In light of this SECO was interested in conducting a study of the domestic and export market to provide Indian farmers with the necessary information. ACNielsen ORG-MARG Pvt. Ltd. and FiBL conducted a .