India's Ladakh Pashmina wool gets GI tag

08 Oct '24

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India's Ladakh Pashmina wool gets GI tag

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Indian textiles minister Giriraj Singh recently handed over the certificate of geographical indication (GI) registration of Pashmina wool to lieutenant governor of union territory Ladakh Brig BD Mishra (retd).
The GI tag will maintain the standards of authenticity, he said.
The government aims at reaching a target of 5 lakh Pashmina goats and a million Merino sheep in the union territory by 2030.

Indian minister for textiles Giriraj Singh recently handed over the certificate of geographical indication (GI) registration of Pashmina wool to lieutenant governor (LG) of union territory Ladakh Brig BD Mishra (retd).

The LG handed over the application for registration of authorised users of Pashmina wool to the minister.

The GI tag will maintain the standards of authenticity, Singh said.

The government aims at reaching a target of 5 lakh Pashmina goats and a million Merino sheep in the union territory by 2030, he was cited as saying by media reports.

The minister made several suggestions, including sending a proposal to the ministry to set up Pashmina breeding farms at Leh and Kargil, conducting artificial insemination and stopping in-breeding of sheep; preparing a project on select breeding; conducting competition among farmers on best practices and providing incentives to them; conducting lab test of pashmina goat milk to check available nutrients; and preparing feed pellets from stocked fodder.

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