{"id":6131,"date":"2022-12-18T06:29:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T00:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6131"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:28:31","slug":"what-is-raktsey-karpo-apricots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-raktsey-karpo-apricots\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Raktsey Karpo Apricots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ladakh grows more than thirty types of Apricots, but the Raktsey Karpo variety is unique to the region.<\/li>\n<li>Apricot is the major fruit of Ladakh with large-scale cultivation in both Leh and Kargil Districts among the nine fruits grown in Ladakh.<\/li>\n<li>Apricot is also being promoted under <strong>One District One Product for Kargil.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is Geographical Indication Tag?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A Geographical Indication is a sign used on products that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin.<\/li>\n<li>Geographical indications are typically used for agricultural products, foodstuffs, wine and spirit drinks, handicrafts and industrial products.<\/li>\n<li>The<strong>Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999<\/strong> seeks to provide for the registration and better protection of geographical indications relating to goods in India.<\/li>\n<li>This GI tag is valid for a <strong>period of 10 years<\/strong> following which it can be <strong>renewed.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0 Which state has the highest GI tag in India?<\/h3>\n<p>Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are states with the highest number of GI tags<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Ladakh-gets-its-first-ever-GI-Tag-to-its-Raktsey-Karpo-Apricot&amp;id=452476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All India Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raktsey Karpo Apricot is a unique variety of Apricot grown in Ladakh where Apricot is the major fruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6131","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\/6131","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=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}