# Sikkim

Sikkim Organic Mission was launched in 2010 with a target to convert the entire state into Organic by 2015. (Edited from [SIKKIM ORGANIC MISSION: Policy Vision and Mission](http://ofai.s3.amazonaws.com/Sikkim_Policy%20vision%20n%20mission.pdf) document. In January 2016, Prime Minister of India declared Sikkim as the first fully organic state in India. The current (2023) status of the Mission or State support for organic farming is not readily available.

[Here](https://youtu.be/3pBwe9kGPfk) is a video that explains 'How the State of Sikkim Became Fully Organic'.

[This article](https://hk.boell.org/en/2023/04/27/organic-sikkim-brand-secured-now-farms-prosper) published in April 2023 gives an overview from the time when Sikkim was declared as fully organic to the situation in recent years.
