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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | ‘Kaipad’ rice included in GI registry -Mohamed Nazeer

‘Kaipad’ rice included in GI registry -Mohamed Nazeer

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published Published on Jun 10, 2014   modified Modified on Jun 10, 2014
-The Hindu
 

Kannur (Kerala): The ‘kaipad' rice cultivated in the brackish water tracts of northern parts of the State has been included in the Geographical Indications (GI) registry in the country which is part of the Intellectual Property regime.

The notification of inclusion of the ‘kaipad' rice varieties in the GI registry followed an application submitted by the Malabar Kaipad Farmers' Society (MKFS) of Ezhome here. The society has been formed for the promotion of ‘kaipad' farming in Kannur, Kasaragod, and Kozhikode.

The society has now got the final GI tag after technical clearance for the inclusion in the registry granted in July last year. It was the initiative of the College of Agriculture at Padannakkad in Kasaragod through its Intellectual Property cell that led to the granting of the GI certification for the rice varieties cultivated by the society.

A delegation of representatives of the society and the college made a presentation before a team of experts under the Controller General of Patents in Hyderabad in July. Securing GI tag for the rice variety was one of the objectives of the project for the comprehensive development of the rice tracts in the region implemented in 2010-11 under the Paddy Mission programme of the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana, said project's principal investigator T. Vanaja of the College of Agriculture who was among the delegation that made the presentation. The organic farming promotion programme of the Planning Board launched under the leadership of M. Govindan of the college also envisaged GI tag for ‘kaipad' rice.

The ‘Kaipad' fields are salinity-prone natural organic rice cultivation fields in the northern districts. Kannur accounts for the large extent of ‘kaipad' fields. The traditional ‘kaipad' system of rice cultivation is an integrated organic farming system in which rice cultivation and aquaculture go together in coastal brackish water marshes rich in organic matter.

Traditional varieties such as ‘Orkayma' and ‘Kuthiri' are popular in the ‘kaipad' fields. The GI tag is expected to benefit paddy farmers in the region, including the traditional farmers in the Kattampally area here known for its large extent of ‘kaipad' fields. Efforts are now on to revive ‘kaipad' farming in the brackish water areas on either side of the Kattampally river decades after the fields were left fallow.

‘Kaipad' rice fields are also located in Ezhome in the district.


The Hindu, 9 June, 2014, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/kaipad-rice-included-in-gi-registry/article6096417.ece


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