Lower Subansiri has become the first district in the state to obtain the coveted Organic Certification for kiwi and large cardamom within a period of three years.
The Organic Certification process was started in the year 2015-16 sponsored by Government of India sponsored programme of Mission Organic Value Chain Development Programm for North East Region (MOVCD-NER).  Arunachal Pradesh took a major leap towards healthy and sustainable agriculture by launching of the State Organic Mission in April 2017. With the launch, the state hoped to shift to organic farming in a phased manner and promote Arunachal Pradesh as an organic state. Therefore, this achievement is a momentous one for the state.
The potential of Arunachal in agriculture and horticulture sector has been conversation starters for the common man as well as those at the helm. The quality of its produce get even more points given the fact that they are organic in every sense of the term albeit sans the certification.
While the rest of the world is only now waking up to the positives of organic farming; Arunachal till date is still largely practising organic way of farming with use of chemicals quite low. 
With a hostile terrain, Arunachal can never be self-sufficient in food production.  And the way forward to ensuring farmers prosperity would be in giving the value of being ‘organic’. 
If the state government is keen on carrying the baton of change, it must go out and out spreading awareness on the ‘why’, and ‘how’ of the organic mission. Farmers must be provided seeds and manure, trained in organic methods and also sent outside the state to get advanced training.
Marketing remains the biggest challenge especially for perishable goods in the face of lack of infrastructure such as roads and cold chain storage facilities.
For example, Dambuk of the ‘festival of orange’ fame produces some of the best oranges in the state if not the country but the tedious journey farmers have to make due to communication bottlenecks results in huge loss. Therefore, it is paramount that an effective marketing strategy is chalked-out do that that end product reach consumers and loss to producers is minimized.
Sikkim is raking all praises for its ‘organic’ status but few realize that this ‘tag’ was the fruition of Sikkim’s 13 year penance. In 2003, Chief Minister, Pawan Kumar Chamling, made a momentous declaration to shun chemical pesticides and fertilizers and return to natural methods of farming. There were protests, dissent and resistance. The journey wasn’t easy, the questions were hard and the challenges looked insurmountable. 
To oversee an organic revolution, Arunachal must brace up for real challenges and the government of the day must be convinced in its decision.
Lower Subansiri has sparked hope that it is doable. Now further sucess depends on resolve and conviction.