Purpose of SALM Standard
The SALM Standard on Good Agricultural Practice is a document that sets
out performance levels (or rules) of agricultural production, which must be
achieved and which are encouraged among the producers. However they
do not specify how the management of agricultural practices should be
done. Instead it is designed to encourage producers to go through the
following process: (1) understand the current situation on the ground
relative to the performance levels they are required to meet, (2) planning
how to get from the current to the future situation (3) implementing the plans
to conform to the requirements of the standard (4) monitoring whether the