Kud Patisa among 5 products, 15 crops, commodities identified for GI tagging

Jammu, March 13: Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department, Atal Dulloo on Monday convened a meeting of officers and technical experts to review GI tagging for identified crops and products at Civil Secretariat here. Threadbare discussion was held on progress made by the concerned on the application of Geographical Identification (GI) tagging of agriculture products of Jammu & Kashmir.
Director, Agriculture Jammu, K K Sharma, Director, Sheep Husbandry Jammu, Krishan Lal, Director, Horticulture Jammu, Ram Sevak, Director Research (SKUAST) Jammu, R K Samnotra, Associate Director SKUAST, Mahital Jamwal and other officers attended the meeting while officers from Srinagar and technical experts of SKUAST-K participation online.
During the meeting, the concerned officers and technical experts gave a presentation highlighting progress made on the application of GI certification of identified crops. Various other aspects of the GI application of identified crops were also discussed. GI expert, Dr. Rajnikant joined the meeting virtually and gave his feedback about the requirements of the particular products during GI registration certification.
After a threadbare discussion, 15 crops/commodities were identified and it was decided to forward those to the consultant within a period of one month. Besides, 5 new products were also identified in the meeting for GI tagging including Burfi of Thandi Khui, Badda of Lakhanpur, Patisa of Kud, Peacanut of Poonch and Queer of Jammu. These products will also be sent for GI tagging soon.
The ACS emphasized the technical experts to focus on collecting historical evidence so as to make each case foolproof for GI certification of these crops.