{"id":14521,"date":"2026-02-20T11:11:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14521"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:14:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:44:36","slug":"salem-sago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/salem-sago\/","title":{"rendered":"Salem Sago"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Salem Sago Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) facilitated the export of 0.5 MT of GI-tagged Salem Sago from Salem, Tamil Nadu to Canada.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Salem Sago<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is locally <\/span><b>known as Javvarisi in Tamil Nadu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is a <\/span><b>starch-based food product<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> extracted from <\/span><b>tapioca roots.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sago is derived <\/span><b>from raw tapiocas.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is in the <\/span><b>form of small hard globules or pearls<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is pearl white in colour.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is manufactured from the <\/span><b>wet starch powder crushed from tapioca roots.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The wet starch powder is used for producing sago and the dry powder has been used as a raw material for industrial purposes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2023 Salem Sago secured a <\/span><b>Geographical Indication (GI) tag.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Uses: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sago is used in various industries, including <\/span><b>food, paper, construction, textile, cosmetic<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, pharmaceutical, mining, and alcohol, among others.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Key Facts about Tapioca<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a major horticulture crop cultivated in Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Required Climatic Conditions for Tapioca<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Soil:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Any well drained soil preferably red lateritic loamy soil.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Climate:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It thrives best in <\/span><b>tropical, warm humid climate<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Rainfall:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Well distributed rainfall of over 100 cm per annum.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This crop can be cultivated upto an elevation of 1000 m.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2230307&amp;reg=3&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salem Sago is locally known as Javvarisi in Tamil Nadu, is a starch-based food product extracted from tapioca roots. Read more about Salem Sago, Uses, Key Facts, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":88892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,5585,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-14521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-salem-sago","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88963,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14521\/revisions\/88963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}