The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare recently announced that around 14,491 hectares of land in Andaman and Nicobar Islands have been certified as organic.
This is the first large contiguous territory to be certified under government scheme.
The organic certification was provided under the Large Area Certification (LAC) Scheme of the Participatory Guarantee System certification programme.
This was launched under the Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana.