Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North Eastern Region

Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North Eastern Region (MOVCD-NER) is a central sector scheme under Government of India's organic scheme which aims at development of organic value chains in the North East Region of India. The scheme is being implemented in all eight states of the North East India namely Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura since 2015-16. The scheme entails creation of 100 FPO/FPC across the eight states comprising a total area of 50000 Hectare. As of 2018, 50,000 farmers have been engaged under the scheme. The scheme provides support to the complete value chain through inputs, seeds, organic certification, creation of facilities for collection, aggregation, processing, marketing and brand building initiative. Organic certification of the land under the FPOs is done by a third-party certification body under the National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP), which is mandatory for exports. From Wikipedia