Green light: GlobalGAP approves guidelines
Will provide guidance to farmers, educational institutions.
LAHORE:
GlobalGAP – an international standard-setting body for good agriculture practices across the globe – has approved the National Interpretation Guidelines (NIG) for fruit and vegetables IFA V4.02 Pakistan, prepared and submitted by the National Technical Working Group (NTWG).
The Agribusiness Support Fund (ASF) facilitates the local NTWG as host and the working group is also provided support by ‘the agribusiness project, USAID-Pakistan’.
This NIG Pakistan has now become a normative document of the GlobalGAP that will provide guidance to farmers, educational institutions as well as certification bodies on how to implement, monitor and sustain the global body’s standards at the national level.
The guidelines are valid from October 1, 2014 and would become mandatory from January 1, 2015 in Pakistan. The publication of NIG signifies a notable achievement for the fruit and vegetable sector of the country and offers long-term potential for Pakistani producers to tap international markets.
Farmers across the world that have complied with GlobalGAP regulations have shown great increase in revenues and expanded their export markets.
The ASF, an associate member of GlobalGAP in Pakistan, has facilitated the establishment and approval of these guidelines.
ASF CEO Khalid Khan hoped for similar achievements in the livestock and aquaculture sectors as well.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 17th, 2014.
GlobalGAP – an international standard-setting body for good agriculture practices across the globe – has approved the National Interpretation Guidelines (NIG) for fruit and vegetables IFA V4.02 Pakistan, prepared and submitted by the National Technical Working Group (NTWG).
The Agribusiness Support Fund (ASF) facilitates the local NTWG as host and the working group is also provided support by ‘the agribusiness project, USAID-Pakistan’.
This NIG Pakistan has now become a normative document of the GlobalGAP that will provide guidance to farmers, educational institutions as well as certification bodies on how to implement, monitor and sustain the global body’s standards at the national level.
The guidelines are valid from October 1, 2014 and would become mandatory from January 1, 2015 in Pakistan. The publication of NIG signifies a notable achievement for the fruit and vegetable sector of the country and offers long-term potential for Pakistani producers to tap international markets.
Farmers across the world that have complied with GlobalGAP regulations have shown great increase in revenues and expanded their export markets.
The ASF, an associate member of GlobalGAP in Pakistan, has facilitated the establishment and approval of these guidelines.
ASF CEO Khalid Khan hoped for similar achievements in the livestock and aquaculture sectors as well.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 17th, 2014.