Ministry of Commerce & Industry has formulated the National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) for certification of organic products. NPOP is being implemented since 2001. Organic products can be exported from the country only when certified by an accredited certification body under the NPOP.

The details of export of organic products during the last three years (2014-15 to 2016-17) are as under:

Year	Export  (Quantity in MT)	Export (Value in Rs. Crore)	Export (Value in USD million)
2016-17	309767	2478.17	370
2015-16	263687	1975.87	298
2014-15	285663	2099.16	327

Source: APEDA

Data for the current year (2017-18) is not yet available. Biodynamic agricultural products are those which are certified under private International Standards like Demeter Standards. Data for exports of Biodynamic products is not maintained.

There were 6674 Operators certified under NPOP as on 31^st March 2017, which included individual producers, processors, traders, grower groups and wild collection operators.

 The State wise export of certified organic products under NPOP for the year 2016-17 is at Annexure-I.

This information was given by the Commerce and Industry Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

NPOP certification requirement: certified organic products only exportable when accredited under national programme; export statistics reported. The export of organic products requires mandatory NPOP certification by an accredited certification body under the National Programme for Organic Production, applied to producers, processors, traders, grower groups and wild collection operators. The government reports export volumes and values for certified organic products, maintains statewise export breakdowns, counts of certified operators, and notes that biodynamic products certified to private international standards are not included in maintained export data.