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SME Times News Bureau | 02 Sep, 2017
To harness the potential of mobile technology, APEDA has developed a mobile app to allow farmers to apply on-line to facilitate their farm registration, tracking the status of application & approvals by State Government and Lab sampling by authorized Laboratories.

Hortinet is an integrated traceability system developed by APEDA for providing Internet based electronic services to the stakeholders for facilitating farm registration, testing and certification of Grape, Pomegranate and Vegetables for export from India to the European Union in compliance with standards.

This mobile app initiative is expected to increase the accessibility and reach of the Traceability software system among the farmers and other stakeholders.

This new Mobile app will also assist State Horticulture/ Agriculture Department to capture real time details of farmers, farm location, products and details of inspections like date of inspection, name of inspecting directly from field. After registration and approval of farm, farmer gets approval information.

Commerce Secretary , Government of India, Smt Rita Teaotia launched the app. The occasion was followed by display of a film depicting  all the facets of the utility of the new app.

Addressing the gathering, the Commerce Secretary expressed her happiness at meeting the APEDA family. She mentioned that Indian agriculture exports are worth 34 bn USD in the total merchandize exports of 435 bn USD.

"The level of agricultural exports is low considering that we have enormous population and most of what is produced is consumed domestically. Though we have only 2.2% share ,yet we are amongst the top 10 players in global agricultural trade. The efforts made by APEDA in promoting exports especially the use of traceability softwares has benefitted Indian agricultural trade and ensuring that importing countries get the product of  quality and standards that they desire. It is true that there could always be stray cases of failure of samples  which could have repercussions on the farmers . It is important for us to make best use of technology so that any problems areas are tracked and solutions found . The use of mobile app technology and traceability systems is a great tool in identifying the farmers and laboratories from where the produce was sourced and tested," she added.

She advised that APEDA make all out efforts in enrolling larger number of farmers and exporters through the new technology tool.

Commerce Secretary mentioned that there is need to move towards adoption of similar standards for domestic market and export market since the Indian consumer is also expecting and entitled to the best quality product.

She suggested that the Mobile App be also be made available on IOS system apart from Android  and that the  app and other traceability systems should be made in vernacular languages for better understanding by users.
 
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TOFU Exports
Dr. Mrs Sushma Joiya Pandit | Wed Jan 31 00:57:12 2018
Integrated Congress of Women Entrepreneurs intends to produce TOFU in the state of Madhya Pradesh at Bina and needs to get it exported to European Countries and APEDA has no provision to grant concessions for exporting TOFU.


 
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