{"id":27077,"date":"2024-10-05T08:35:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T03:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27077"},"modified":"2025-10-11T13:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:46:32","slug":"new-gi-tagged-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/new-gi-tagged-products\/","title":{"rendered":"New GI Tagged Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About New GI Tagged Products:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Unique varieties of rice beer<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018<strong>Bodo Jou Gwran\u2019:<\/strong> It has the highest percentage of alcohol (about 16.11%) when compared with other varieties of rice beer made by the Bodo community.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018<strong>Maibra Jou Bidwi\u2019:<\/strong> It is known locally as \u2018<strong>Maibra Jwu Bidwi\u2019<\/strong> or \u2018<strong>Maibra Zwu<\/strong> Bidwi\u2019, is revered and served as a welcome drink by most Bodo tribes. It\u2019s prepared by fermenting half-cooked rice (mairong) with less water, and adding a little \u2018amao\u2019 (a potential source of yeast) to it.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018<strong>Bodo Jou Gishi\u2019:<\/strong> It is also a traditionally fermented rice-based alcoholic beverage.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Traditional Food Products<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bodo Napham\u2019:<\/strong> It is an important and favourite <strong>dish of fermented fish<\/strong> prepared anaerobically in a tightly sealed container in a process that requires about two-three months.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bodo Ondla\u2019:<\/strong> A rice powder curry flavoured with garlic, ginger, salt, and alkali.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bodo Gwkha\u2019:<\/strong> It is locally also known as \u2018Gwka Gwkhi\u2019, it\u2019s prepared during the Bwisagu festival.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018<strong>Bodo Narzi\u2019: <\/strong>It isa semi-fermented <strong>food prepared with jute leaves<\/strong> (Corchorus capsularis), a rich source of Omega 3 fatty acids, vitamins and essential minerals, including calcium and magnesium.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bodo Aronai\u2019: <\/strong>It is a small, <strong>beautiful cloth<\/strong> (1.5-2.5 meters long and 0.5 meter wide)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Geographical Indications (GI tags)?<\/h3>\n<p>These are signs used on products that have a specific geographical origin and possess distinctive qualities, reputation, or characteristics attributable to that place of origin. GI tags serve as intellectual property rights that identify a product&#8217;s unique geographical source, providing legal protection and preventing unauthorised use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/gi-tags-for-bodo-rice-beers-and-other-culinary-delights\/article68706590.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eight products used by Assam tribe granted GI tag<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many products from the Assam region, including traditional food items and several unique varieties of rice beer were given the Geographical Indication tag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27077","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=27077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}