- The Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shri Radha Mohan Singh launched an online platform for Agmark to conduct quality control functions..
- Agmark is certification mark that assures conformity to a set of standards approved by the government agency Directorate of Marketing and Inspection.
- The existing procedures for Agmark certification were in physical form and time consuming.
- In the new online application system the process of application will be simple, quick, transparent and 24×7 and there are provisions for online receipt of fees from the applicants. Payment will be received in digital mode through the website bharatkosh.gov.in.
- The online platform has been developed by the National Informatics Center