Agriculture and Food Processing Minister Sharad Pawar Monday introduced the Agricultural Bio-Safety Bill-2013 in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament.
The proposed legislation will ensure agricultural biosecurity of the country for common benefit and for safeguarding the agricultural economy.
It will also meet international obligations of India for facilitating imports and exports of plants, plant products, animals, animal products, aquatic organisms and regulation of agriculturally important micro-organisms.
The bill seeks to bring together the plant, animal and marine protection and quarantine set ups under a high powered body - an authority - with adequate powers.
The authority's mandate will cover the four sectors of agricultural biosecurity, viz. plant health, animal health, living aquatic resources (fisheries, etc.) and agriculturally important micro-organisms.
--With ANI Inputs--
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