{"id":55401,"date":"2021-10-12T05:41:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T05:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=55401"},"modified":"2022-09-12T13:15:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T07:45:30","slug":"tamil-nadus-kanniyakumari-clove-gets-geographical-indication-tag-along-with-2-more-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/tamil-nadus-kanniyakumari-clove-gets-geographical-indication-tag-along-with-2-more-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu\u2019s \u2018Kanniyakumari Clove\u2019 gets Geographical Indication Tag along with 2 more products"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The unique clove spice grown in the hills of Kanyakumari district in<strong>&nbsp;Tamil Nadu<\/strong>&nbsp;has been awarded a&nbsp;<strong>geographical indication (GI)<\/strong>&nbsp;as<strong>&nbsp;\u2018Kanyakumari clove\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The buds, fallen leaves, and stems of the clove trees are also used to make essential oils. The total production of cloves in India is 1,100 metric tons. Of this, 1,000 metric tons are produced in Tamil Nadu every year. Kanyakumari district alone produces 750 metric tons of cloves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from this, the traditional dye-painted figurative and patterned cloth called&nbsp;<strong>Karuppur kalamkari paintings<\/strong>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<strong>wood carvings of Kallakurichi from Tamil Nadu<\/strong>&nbsp;have also received GI tags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unique clove spice grown in the hills of Kanyakumari district in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu&nbsp;has been awarded a&nbsp;geographical indication (GI)&nbsp;as&nbsp;\u2018Kanyakumari clove\u2019. The buds, fallen leaves, and stems of the clove trees are also used to make essential oils. The total production of cloves in India is 1,100 metric tons. Of this, 1,000 metric tons are produced in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":55402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1918],"tags":[297,4916],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-55401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2021","tag-gi-tag","tag-national-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55403,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55401\/revisions\/55403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55401"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=55401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}