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    The document discusses Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and its importance in sustainable agriculture. GAP aims to make agriculture less dependent on chemicals and more environmentally friendly through principles like integrated pest management and soil management. It helps meet objectives of food security, quality, and environmental protection. GAP is recognized internationally and promoted by the private sector through standards. Key components of GAP include managing soil properties, water use, nutrient management, and post-harvest handling to produce safe, healthy foods and protect the environment.

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    E. Vadivel* and V. Panimalar**
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    Dean, Horticultural College and Research Institute, TNAU, Coimbatore
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    Senior Research Fellow, Department of Fruit Crops, HC & RI, TNAU, Coimbatore

    The concept of Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) sis for other programs of stimulus to quality improve-
    has evolved in recent years in the context of a rapidly ment, like the Hazards Analysis and Critical Control
    changing and globalizing food economy and as a result Points (HACCP) or for programs of promotion of agri-
    of the concerns and commitments of a wide range of cultural certification such as Integrated Fruit Produc-
    stakeholders about food production and security, food tion and other international protocols for quality certi-
    safety and quality, and the environmental sustainability fication.
    of agriculture. These stakeholders include governments,
    At present, GAP is formally recognized in the in-
    food processing and retailing industries, farmers, and
    ternational regulatory framework for reducing risks as-
    consumers, who seek to meet specific objectives of food
    sociated with the use of pesticides, taking into account
    security, food quality, production efficiency, livelihoods
    public and occupational health, environmental, and
    and environmental benefits in both medium and long
    safety considerations. The use of GAP is also being
    term. GAP offers a means to help reach those objec-
    promoted increasingly by the private sector through
    tives.
    informal codes of practice and indicators developed by
    Broadly defined, GAP applies available knowledge food processors and retailers in response to emerging
    to addressing environmental, economic and social consumer demand for sustainably produced and whole-
    sustainability for on-farm production and post-produc- some food. This trend may create incentives for the
    tion processes resulting in safe and healthy food and adoption of GAP by farmers by opening new market
    non-food agricultural products. Many farmers in de- opportunities, provided they have the capacity to re-
    veloped and developing countries already apply GAP spond.
    through sustainable agricultural methods such as inte-
    grated pest management, integrated nutrient manage- Good Agricultural Practices for Selected
    ment and conservation agriculture. These methods are Agricultural Components
    applied in a range of farming systems and scales of
    production units, including as a contribution to food Soil
    security, facilitated by supportive government policies
    1. The physical and chemical properties and functions,
    and programmes.
    organic matter and biological activity of the soil
    Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) is a set of prin- are fundamental to sustaining agricultural produc-
    ciples to make agriculture less dependent on chemi- tion and determine, in their complexity, soil fertil-
    cals, less aggressive to the environment and more so- ity and productivity. Appropriate soil management
    cially conscious, therefore, more sustainable. Good aims to maintain and improve soil productivity by
    Agricultural Practices are procedures that improve con- improving the availability and plant uptake of wa-
    ventional methods of production, beginning with the ter and nutrients through enhancing soil biological
    choice of the cultivation areas reaching until post-har- activity, replenishing soil organic matter and soil
    vest procedures with emphasis in the health, well-be- moisture, and minimizing losses of soil, nutrients,
    ing and safety of workers. They aim at healthy prod- and agrochemicals through erosion, runoff and
    ucts and at the preservation of the environment pro- leaching into surface or ground water. Though soil
    moting the addition of value to the products of small, management is generally undertaken at field/farm
    medium and large farmers. These practices are the ba- level, it affects the surrounding area or catchment

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