Atreyapuram Pootharekulu get GI tag

KAKINADA: The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade has announced issuance of the Geographical Indication tag to “Atreyapuram Pootharekulu.”

The tag was allotted after Sir Arthur Cotton Pootharekula Sahakara Sangham, a cooperative society, applied for securing a GI tag for the Pootharekulu sweet.

The department put up the GI tag proposal in the GI journal on February 13 and invited objections for it. No objections had been received till the midnight of June 13.

The society then announced that Atreyapuram Pootharekulu have got GI tag.