NEW YORK: India's "100 per cent organic state" Sikkim has gained the "Oscar for best policies", conferred through the Food and Agriculture Organisation for the arena's very best policies selling agroecological and sustainable food systems. Sikkim gained the Future Policy Award 2018, beating 51 nominated policies from 25 countries, in keeping with a observation.
Policies from Brazil, Denmark and Quito (Ecuador) bagged silver awards.
The award is co-organised through the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the World Future Council (WFC) and IFOAM - Organics International.
Sikkim turned into the first state in India to officially announce adoption of organic farming within the 12 months 2003 to make sure long term sustenance of soil fertility, protection of surroundings and ecology, healthy residing and decreasing the chance of health ailments.
In 2003, Sikkim stopped imports of chemical fertilizers within the State and because then the cultivatable land there's practically organic and farmers of Sikkim are conventional customers of organic manure.
"Sikkim is the first organic state in the world. All of its farmland is certified organic. At the same time, Sikkim's approach reaches beyond organic production and has proven truly transformational for the state and its citizens," the observation stated.
Embedded in its design are socioeconomic aspects such as consumption and marketplace enlargement, cultural aspects in addition to health, training, rural development and sustainable tourism.
The coverage implemented a segment out of chemical fertilisers and insecticides, and accomplished a total ban on sale and use of chemical insecticides within the state.
The transition has benefitted more than 66, 000 farming households. The Sikkim tourism sector has benefitted a great deal from the state's transition to 100 in step with cent organic because the collection of tourists higher through over 50 in step with cent between 2014 and 2017, it stated.
"As such, Sikkim sets an excellent example of how other Indian states and countries worldwide can successfully upscale agroecology," it stated.
The 2018 Future Policy Award (FPA) commended proven policies that successfully scale up agroecological approaches at native, nationwide and global levels. It celebrated remarkable examples for accelerating the transformative alternate in the way food is produced and consumed.
Winners of this 12 months's Future Policy Award shall be celebrated right through World Food Week in a ceremony on Monday at FAO headquarters in Rome.
Policies from Brazil, Denmark and Quito (Ecuador) bagged silver awards.
The award is co-organised through the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the World Future Council (WFC) and IFOAM - Organics International.
Sikkim turned into the first state in India to officially announce adoption of organic farming within the 12 months 2003 to make sure long term sustenance of soil fertility, protection of surroundings and ecology, healthy residing and decreasing the chance of health ailments.
In 2003, Sikkim stopped imports of chemical fertilizers within the State and because then the cultivatable land there's practically organic and farmers of Sikkim are conventional customers of organic manure.
"Sikkim is the first organic state in the world. All of its farmland is certified organic. At the same time, Sikkim's approach reaches beyond organic production and has proven truly transformational for the state and its citizens," the observation stated.
Embedded in its design are socioeconomic aspects such as consumption and marketplace enlargement, cultural aspects in addition to health, training, rural development and sustainable tourism.
The coverage implemented a segment out of chemical fertilisers and insecticides, and accomplished a total ban on sale and use of chemical insecticides within the state.
The transition has benefitted more than 66, 000 farming households. The Sikkim tourism sector has benefitted a great deal from the state's transition to 100 in step with cent organic because the collection of tourists higher through over 50 in step with cent between 2014 and 2017, it stated.
"As such, Sikkim sets an excellent example of how other Indian states and countries worldwide can successfully upscale agroecology," it stated.
The 2018 Future Policy Award (FPA) commended proven policies that successfully scale up agroecological approaches at native, nationwide and global levels. It celebrated remarkable examples for accelerating the transformative alternate in the way food is produced and consumed.
Winners of this 12 months's Future Policy Award shall be celebrated right through World Food Week in a ceremony on Monday at FAO headquarters in Rome.
'100 per cent organic state' Sikkim gets FAO award for best policies
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