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India, Pak to apply for joint basmati rice GI registration

Sandip Das
Posted: Wednesday, Nov 26, 2008 at 0002 hrs IST
Updated: Wednesday, Nov 26, 2008 at 0002 hrs IST

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New Delhi: 2007-8 from Rs 2482 crore achieved during the previous year.

In terms of volume, the export of basmati rice has gone up from 7.71 lakh tonnes in 2003 to an estimated 1.4 million tonnes in 2008.

Trade source said that drafting a common definition of basmati for GI might not be so easy for Apeda, as there states like Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Karnataka have started growing basmati.

Since GI postulates geographic area, which is clearly defined as the Himalayan foothill in the case of Basmati, the newly growing Basmati states may be excluded, which may raise serious discontent among farming communities....

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