To the problem of national certification of organic manufacturers of agricultural products

Abstract

The purpose. To develop principles of building of all-level national system of certification of organic farm-producers for provision of efficient operation of different-level systems of biological farming agriculture in Ukraine. Methods. Agro-ecological and biotechnological with the use of price approach, and also complex, system and logical methods of research. Results. The all-level national system of certification of organic farm-producers is developed. It provides the following levels: export (conformity to all demands of organic legislation of EU or/and to demands of countries or corporations-importers); biodynamic (additional use of accordingly certificated biotechnological alternatives on separate links of trophic circuit); integrated ecological production (conformity of production process to demands of restoring small circulation of matters, use of techniques of sanation and/or exception of background pollution). Each of the offered levels can have conforming sublevels: certification: separate sort of products; separate flow process; technologically coordinated flow processes, and full-scale biological farm-production. National system of certification and accreditation should determine and fix normative for 3 sorts of biological produce: certification: for normative demands of IFOAM and EU; for branch standards for home market; for individual conditions and standards of business and public structures. Now there is a social order for development and implementation of national system of certification of biological production which would match to necessities of society and level of development of state-of-the-art perspective agro-biotechniques. Conclusions. For the further becoming and development of national biological production it is expedient to create domestic all-level system of certification of organic farm-producers.