PANAJI: Country Council for science and technology has submitted an application for geographical indications (GI) for the Mango Cave Mancur (MANKURAD) variant and currently works to get similar status for Mangeelar and Mangarat varieties.
GI tags protect products from those used illegally and ensure benefits for local farmers communities.
The department is also in the process of establishing a mango and local seller association.
For this, he has called for a meeting with farmers currently involved in the production of these three variants of this mango.
“Considering the ongoing Covid-19 SOP and depends on the response we received, the meeting may be offline or online to select the AdHoc committee to start the process needed to fill in the GI application.
Given the same farmer, concerned, along with local traders, can provide Their name is via SMS / WhatsApp or calling a responsible project, Deepak Parab, at 983453931 so that they can be involved in the process of establishing associations, “statements issued by the department are read.
The department said the association would be open to membership and after one year completion, a regular committee will be chosen at a special annual general meeting to take further GI processes.