Team of Sikkim State Organic Certification Agency (SSOCA)  are on a visit of Leh district regarding organic certification of Leh villages in collaboration with LAHDC, Leh under MODI scheme.  

Hill Council, Leh felicitated Director, SSOCA, Sudhir Giri and Technical Expert SOOCA, Vimal Pravash  on January 5 at Council Secretariat.

The team gave a detailed PowerPoint presentation about the duties and functioning of SSOCA under Sikkim Government as a recognized agency in providing organic certification. They updated newly elected Councillors of 6th LAHDC, Leh about the role of SSOCA and its collaboration with LAHDC, Leh and handed over C1 organic certificates to about 16 villages of Leh district being covered in the first phase of MODI scheme.

Deputy Chairman, Tsering Angchuk, Executive Councillor for Agriculture Stanzin Chosphel, Executive Councillor for Rural Dev. Dept. Tashi Yakzee and Executive Councillor for Minority and Forest Ghulam Mehdi thanked the visiting team of SSOCA. 

Upcoming schemes, training and exchange programmers with SSOCA in guiding Leh towards organic and sustainable agriculture practices were discussed and assured all possible support in future collaborations.

Chief Agriculture Officer Tashi Tsetan; Sub District Agriculture Officer, Leh, Tashi Dolma and Agriculture Extension Officer, Leh Mohd Ramzan attended the meeting.

Under the chairmanship of the then CEC, LAHDC, Leh Jamyang Tsering Namgyal a memorandum of understanding between Sikkim State Organic Certification Agency and LAHDC, Leh was signed to exchange ideas, knowledge, expertise and to conduct training to convert entire Leh district into an organic region by 2025 in June 2019.