Soon after the Dahanu-Gholvad chikoo fruit from Palghar district of Maharashtra obtaining Geographical Indicator (GI) tags, initiatives are currently being produced to get a GI tag for Wada Kolam rice, which is a unique aromatic variety cultivated in the Wada taluka of the district.
On June 29, a ultimate software was produced with GI Registry for obtaining the tag. The GI Registry is a section of the Business of the Controller Normal of Patents, Models and Trade Marks.
Wada Kolam rice variety is cultivated only in coastal Palghar district, which was carved out of the gigantic Thane district in 2014. Palghar has a unique agro-local climate thanks to proximity to the Arabian sea as also to the woody Sahyadri mountain vary. The fertile land also provides chikoo or sapota fruit, which obtained a GI tag in January 2017.
The exertion to get the GI tag has been spearheaded by outstanding Mental Assets law firm Ganesh Hingmire and local farmer people from Wada taluka. Hingmire told BusinessLine that Wada Kolam rice is quite considerably sought following in the current market thanks to its flavour, hence numerous rice mill homeowners mis-offer their rice types as Wada Kolam. The GI tag to the rice variety will give far better costs to the Wada farmers. It will provide traceability and accountability to the Wada Kolam rice trade.
Farmer Vaibhav Patil from Wada, secretary of the local farmer cooperative modern society that has carried out the knowledge accumulating and history in the direction of obtaining the GI tag, mentioned that in all of Wada taluka only about 250 farmers cultivate the variety above about 2,five hundred hectares of land. Since the land is fertile, only cow dung is utilized as manure, no other chemical is utilized.
Nevertheless, the variety has a lessen yield, as out of one hundred quintals of paddy only forty five quintals of polished rice will get generated, although other types yield about 55 quintals. Therefore some farmers are significantly less inclined to plant this variety. Right now, Wada farmers get ₹40 per kg. But if GI tag is obtained the rate could boost to ₹80-ninety and the region beneath Wada Kolam could effortlessly rise to 5,000 hectares, he mentioned.
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