1Assistant Professor, Department of Food Processing and Technology, Bilaspur Vishwavidalaya, Bilaspur
2Assistant Fruit and Vegetable Technologist, Department of Food Science & Technology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
Online published on 19 November, 2015.
Present paper attempts to correlate significance of geographical indications with trade practices in context with food and food industry. The role of GIs to protect the importance of local culture and tradition in the face of globalization is discussed. India's rich cultural diversity also shows that some traditional foods have benefits of nutritional sufficiency and market potential and once they are established as geographical indicators, their overall production and sale will definitely augment. Further these GI foods are pride of Indian cultural diets. The vast majority of GIs related to food are not well known and are often legally unprotected and the consumers consumes them realizing that those products are in fact GIs or what the GI represents. The practical considerations of pursuing and protecting a GI in Indian context are also provided.
Geographical indications, Indian food industry, Traditional foods.
