States have been advised to expedite the issue of the G-2 Form within 15-20 days of the receipt of application from the manufacturer
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare in a recent clarification to all the directors of states and UTs have stated to include biostimulants in Schedule VI of Fertiliser Control Order (FCO). As per the notification, all manufacturers/importers are required to submit applications in Form G to the Controllers of Fertilisers along with the toxicity report from NABL accredited laboratories and details of bio-efficacy trials conducted in the National Agriculture Research Framework.
The order further mentioned that in order to facilitate, the existing manufacturing industry, a provision has been made from provisional registration of two years from the date of issue of notification i.e February 22, 2023.
Concerns were being raised by biostimulants associations as well as the state governments with regards to the implementation of this notification. States have to expedite the issue of the G-2 Form within 15-20 days of the receipt of application from the manufacturer, in order to facilitate all manufacturers to submit their G-1 Form for provisional registration in the month of December 2021, to the Controller of Fertilizer, JS(INM), DAC&FW, Krishi Bhawan. With regards to sale data of the last three years, the state government has been advised to accept the self-attested label of the product along with self-attested sale figures of products sold in their state, for the last three years, from an authorised representative of the company or GST data for the last three years or stock, production/trade of the product for last three years duly verified by a chartered accountant.
Regarding the data of the hazardous effect of the product, the states have been advised to consider self-declaration of “No reported ill-effect or hazardous effect’ or any publication or worldwide acceptable test report supporting non-hazardous effect of the product.
