India and Pakistan are clashing again. This time it's about rice

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India's effort to gain protected status for basmati rice exports in Europe has irked Pakistan, the world's No. 2 producer.

At stake is not only a major export industry but also bragging rights over a mainstay of South Asian cooking — whether layered with onions and spices in hearty biryanis or fluffed with vegetables in delicate pulaos.in an EU journal in September, asked the bloc to grant “geographical indication” status to its basmati rice, which would tag it as a product inextricably connected to its place of origin — similar to Champagne from France, potatoes from Idaho or Kalamata olives from Greece.

A farmer harvests rice in a field outside Srinagar, in the Indian-held territory of Jammu and Kashmir. “If India gets the GI tag, it would make our basmati even more attractive in the international market,” said Rajeev Setia, joint managing director of Chaman Lal Setia, an Indian rice exporter in the northern state of Haryana. “Countries around the world are looking for authenticity.”

 

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