Online portals on export/import of agricultural commodities and pesticides registration

Context

The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare launched two portals,

• one for the Computerized Registration of pesticide (CROP)
• other for the Plant Quarantine Management System (PQMS)

About CROP and PQIS portal

• For quicker disposal of applications related to export/import of agricultural commodities and pesticides registration, Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (DAFW) launched two redeveloped online portals. 
• These two portals have been launched and would help in taking forward digital Agriculture and Ease of doing Business. 
• The new portals will benefit farmers, exporters as well as industrialists. 
• Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (DAFW), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, through the Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine & Storage (DPPQS), Faridabad has been catering to Indian exporters and importers of agriculture commodities and Indian Pesticide Industry, through its two portals namely, Computerized Registration of pesticide (CROP) and Plant Quarantine Information System (PQIS).
• The PQMS portal will provide a transparent system with no physical touch points for the applicants and ensure convenience to the users, through an online system including e-payments and uploading of documents, online accreditation and renewal of treatment agencies/facilities and downloading of certificates. 
• Similarly, the re-developed CROP portal will immensely help in ease of doing business and provide greater and timely Crop protection solutions to farmers of the country.