The Geographical Indication Registry granted Chhattisgarh’s aromatic rice, Nagri Dubraj, a geographical indication (GI) tag facilitating the brand to get a unique identity and a wide market.
- The Morena Gajak and Rewa Mango (both Madhya Pradesh) and Nagri Dubraj have been given GI tags.
- It will give a new identity to the products in the national and international market.
About Nagri Dubraj
- In Chhattisgarh, Nagri Dubraj is produced by a women’s self-help group.
- The women’s self-help group “Maa Durga Swasahayata Samuh” of Nagri in Dhamtari district has been harvesting Dubraj and had applied to the GI tag.
- The Nagri Dubraj is known as the Basmati of Chhattisgarh because of its fragrance.
- After Jeeraphool rice, Dubraj is the second brand from the state to get the GI tag. In the year 2019, Jeeraphool was given the GI tag.
- A GI tag is given to an entrepreneur or a group of businessmen of a particular area, state, or country. The GI tags are issued as per the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, of 1999.
