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GI Tags — 2025-26 Tracker
A Geographical Indication (GI) tag is the legal stamp that ties a product to its place of origin, and India kept adding them through 2025-26, with tribal crafts and hill-grown produce leading the new grants. This tracker logs the registrations and the export firsts that carry exam value — Jharkhand's record haul of silk, jewellery and bamboo tags, Assam's maiden ginger shipment to London, and the first sea-route export of GI-tagged Mithila Makhana from Bihar to Australia.
Last updated 8 August 20265 min read
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Adds the first sea-route export of a GI-tagged product from Bihar: APEDA sent 18 tonnes of Mithila Makhana from Bihta to Australia on 8 August 2026, earning Darbhanga growers about 18 percent above market rates — and the whole tracker is restructured into scannable rows with a stat capsule.
- Geographical Indication
- GI tag
- Jharkhand GI
- Kuchai silk
- Munda jewellery
- Karbi Anglong ginger
- NABARD
- GI Registry Chennai
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