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This year, the food safety and standards authority of India made it mandatory that for a product to be marketed as organic, it should have the organic certification. So traders have started to emphasize organic farmers to get their produce certified,” she said. The directorate expects the proposal to be sanctioned soon and certification centres to come up within a year, she said.The process of organic certification involves two levels. Based on this, the director of seed certification and organic certification, A Mathialagan, had sent the proposal, said Irene Priyadarshini, assistant director of agriculture, the Tamil Nadu organic certification department (TNOCD).Currently the only organic certification centre in the state is in Coimbatore and the state has only four inspectors and each of them visits fields across eight districts to inspect produce for organic certification. Coimbatore: To streamline the process of organic farming and marketing of organic products in the state, the directorate of seed and organic certification under the department of agriculture has submitted a proposal to the state government last week to set up organic certification centres in all districts.Officials of the directorate said the proposal was announced in the budget session in the state assembly last month..