Khirsa mango to get GI tag soon
The Khirsapat mango of Chapai-nawabganj, famously known as himsagar, is set to wind up the third item after hilsa and jamdani to get the Geographical Indication (GI) tag.
The advancement comes after the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute connected for GI accreditation for the mango assortment in February a year ago for the benefit of the cultivators of Chapainawabganj, one of the fundamental mango-creating locales.
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According to rules, the Department of Patents, Designs, and Trademarks (DPDT), which a month ago gave its preparatory gesture, will now sit tight for two months to see whether anybody has any complaint to enlistment of the organic product as a GI item.
GI is a name or sign utilized on items to ensure that it has certain characteristics for being made or delivered according to conventional techniques or appreciates a specific notoriety because of its topographical root.
"As the mango season is going to begin, the sooner we get the GI label the better it will be for our cultivators as it will empower them to mark their produces well," said Md Sorof Uddin, the senior logical officer (agriculture) at cultivation examine station of BARI in Chapainawabganj.
The protected innovation specialist will distribute a diary in such manner soon, said an authority of DPDT. BARI connected for GI enrollment for the mango assortment with the target of making extension at guaranteeing better costs for producers and expanding the development of mango.
It has additionally connected for GI enrollment for the famous mango assortment Fazli, developed for the most part in the northwest division of Rajshahi.
The offer to get the GI tag for the prominent mango assortments comes about nine years after India enlisted Laxman Bhog and Khirsapati (Himsagar) mangoes as GI results of West Bengal.
The neighboring nation likewise got the GI tag for the Fazli mango developed in West Bengal's Malda.
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BARI said Chapainawabganj has a background marked by Khirsapat mango development and its premise could be found in the nearby society music 'Alkap Gan' dated back to 1955. Plus, the Bangladesh District Gazetteer additionally specified mango plantations in more prominent Rajshahi locale, it included.
The move comes as mango development territory is ascending alongside its creation on account of developing interest for the mid year organic product.
Bangladesh delivered 11.61 lakh huge amounts of mangoes in monetary 2015-16, up 14 percent from a year sooner.
Agriculturists had packed away 8.02 lakh huge amounts of mangoes in monetary 2007-08, as indicated by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). The mango plantation region grew 51 percent year-on-year to 93,480 sections of land in financial 2015-16.
BARI researcher Sorof said mango generation ascended after some time for expanding premiums of cultivators for business development to oblige the household and fare markets.
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There was just 12 mango delivering locale that collected 2.43 lakh huge amounts of the natural product in 2005. Presently, the natural product is economically developed in 23 regions, he said.
"Ranchers are expanding real esatate as they are making benefits," he stated, refering to a gauge that the yearly market size of mango could be more than Tk 5,000 crore.
The Ashwina assortment of mango represents 33% the aggregate generation, trailed by Khirsapat, Amrapali, Fazli, Langra and different assortments, as indicated by the authority.
Khirsapat is additionally developed in Sathkhira, Meherpur and Rajshahi areas and gathering of the organic product starts amidst May and proceeds until the point that the third seven day stretch of May, Sorof said.
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