Mango growers from the Konkan area of Maharashtra have jumped huge on the GI bandwagon with the area having cornered 1,845 GI tags for growers, processors and merchants of the Hapus mango. Mukund Joshi, secretary of the Hapus Amba Utpadak Vikreta Sahakari Sangh mentioned this could be the very best variety of GI tags issued for particular person merchandise within the nation.
Joshi mentioned the GI tag of Hapus mango is reserved for the fruit which is produced in 5 districts of Konkan — Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri, Raigad, Palghar and Thane. Identified for its delicate flavour and colouring, growers say that apart from them nobody else is allowed to make use of the tag of Hapus for his or her mangoes. The Sangh which is a cooperative physique of growers and sellers of the fruit had initiated motion towards infringement on the time period of Hapus which is getting used for mangoes grown in Karnataka and different areas of Maharashtra as effectively. “GI (geographical indication) applies to agricultural items that are produced in a selected area solely. Thus whether it is used to model items sourced from different area it will be an infringement,” he mentioned. The Sangh has been serving to its members and fellow farmers to use and get GI tags for his or her fields. “Containers of mangoes that are sourced from our area have the QR codes scanning which one can get the main points of farm and the GI tag,” he mentioned.
Hapus growers within the state have requested market committees and the state advertising and marketing board to take measures to cease infringement of the model Hapus. In the meantime many farmers and farmer producer firms have used know-how to make sure their patrons are assured of the standard of the fruit they’re shopping for. Nishikant Patil and Harshal Jarande administrators of Regional Roots Personal Restricted mentioned they’re sourcing Hapus mangoes from 21 farmers from Devgad taluka of Sindhudurg district and 12 different farmers from Ratnagiri district. “Our goal is to make sure the hole between farmers and the shopper is lowered. The shopper ought to get worth for his cash and the farmer manages to get the very best for his produce,” they mentioned. The corporate says their bins have QR codes which helps the shopper to get the main points of the orchard from the place the mangoes are sourced.
On the mango pageant of MahaFPC, the bins have full traceability with particulars like date of harvest and packing additionally encrypted on their QR code. Yogesh Thorat, managing director of MahaFPC mentioned they goal to make sure growers get higher costs for his or her produce.
