Telangana, AP Gear Up For New GIs In 2025 With Agri, Handicrafts Products

Both States are actively identifying new products for GI registration, including handicrafts like Madhavmala wood carvings and Dhupion cloth from Andhra Pradesh, and Hyderabad pearls and Armur turmeric from Telangana. Agricultural products are also being considered, such as Sugandalu Banana from AP and Balanagar custard apple from Telangana

Geographical Indications (GIs) filing and registration have really picked up all over India. With 1408 new GI filings and 658 GI registrations till date, there is no better time than in 2025 to go full throttle to identify and file for new products for GI registration from the Telugu States. Till date Andhra Pradesh has 19 GI registered products and Telangana has 17 registered products and the States must gear up to make it into the top five Indian States.

Subhajit Saha, GI Practitioner and Founder of the Resolote4IP has been involved in filing and registration of 27 of these GIs from the list of 36 from both the States. Saha also served as the GI nodal officer for Telangana in his CII role as Director in previous years. From Pochampally to Hyderabad Lac Bangles and from mangoes to Warangal chilli, he was the agent on record to get the GI registration for these products and has been working extensively to help stakeholders and government for GI registrations over the years.

For any product to qualify for GI, Saha mentioned the six cardinal rules. First and foremost is that the product must originate from a geographical location, place, second it must have some linkage with the geographic location. Third, it must have some reputation locally, Nationally or globally. Fourth, the product needs to have some historical evidence of its existence; fifth, it must have some uniqueness from all the products and lastly most important it has to be made or manufactured by a community.

With this background, both the Telugu States are now gearing up for filing of the geographical indications. To begin with Andhra Pradesh has identified seven handicraft products for GI registrations out of which Madhavmala wood carvings GI has been filed in 2024. The other six product in the pipeline from handlooms and handicrafts are Dhupion cloth, Madhavaram cotton and silk sarees, Polavaram sarees, Bobilli sarees, Kadapagunta Tellajilledu wooden Idols, Palamneru Terracota. The YSR horticulture university is working to file for GI products for Sugandalu Banana, Mydukur Turmeric, Polur Vankaya, Durgada chilli, and Kakinada roses. These filings will really shoot up Andhra Pradesh’s GI products list to more than 30 in 2025.

While Telangana has identified six products namely Hyderabad pearls, Armur turmeric from Nizamabad, Narayanpet jewellery making, Batik paining from Medak, Banjara needle craft from Nalgonda and Banjara tribal jewellery which will be taken up for filing in 2025. The Kondalaxman Horticultural university is also working to register four products - Balanagar custard apple, Nalgonda pickling melon, Anabshahi grapes, and Khammam chilli. With 10 products to be studied and filed, Telangana has 10 new and AP has 12 new products to be taken up for filing. In 2025, with 22 new filings and soon Warangal chapata to be granted GI in April 2025, from Telangana the two states will reach 59 GI products cumulative. 28 GI products from the state of Telangana and 31 GI products from Andhra Pradesh.