The Government of Nepal, Ministry of Agricultural Development (MoAD) and the FAO jointly organized today the National Stakeholders consultation workshop on Good Agriculture Practice (GAP) scheme for Nepal. The objective of the workshop was focused on the “Development of Standards and scheme for Good Agriculture Practice (GAP) implementation and certification in countries of SAARC”.Speaking from the chair Mr. Jaya Mukunda Khanal, Secretary at the Ministry of Agricultural Development said that the upcoming accreditation board under the Accreditation act, which is going to be promulgated soon by the Government of Nepal. Secretary Khanal expressed gratitude of FAO for including Nepal in the TCP, which help to establish quality certification and accreditation.In the technical sessions of the workshop, the FAO experts Ms. Shashi Sareen, Mr Dinesh Menon and Mr Manish Pande made presentations on “SAARC GAP Scheme and Role of Scheme Owner”, “Requirements for certification bodies and their approval” and Requirements and Certification Criteria” respectively. The technical sessions were presided over by Dr. Dinesh Prasad Prajauli, Joint Secretary at the MoAD and Dr. Yubak Dhwaj GC, Director General of the Department of Agriculture.
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Publisher:
FAO
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Press Release
in English
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Keywords:
FOOD, FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION, AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
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Thematic Group:
FAO
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Food and Agriculture Organization
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Thesaurus:
10.01.00
- Food And Nutrition
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