{"id":215377,"date":"2022-11-22T19:23:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T13:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=215377"},"modified":"2022-12-08T12:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T06:53:48","slug":"andaman-nicobars-first-application-for-the-geographical-indication-tag-is-for-the-nicobari-hodi-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/andaman-nicobars-first-application-for-the-geographical-indication-tag-is-for-the-nicobari-hodi-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"Andaman &#038; Nicobar\u2019s first application for the Geographical Indication tag is for the Nicobari hodi craft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cAndaman &amp; Nicobar\u2019s first application for the Geographical Indication tag is for the Nicobari hodi craft\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 21st November 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andaman &amp; Nicobar Islands has filed an application, seeking the Geographical Indication(GI) tag for the Nicobari Hodi craft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the first application from the Union Territory seeking a tag for one of its products.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Nicobar Hodi?<\/b><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_215378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215378\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-215378 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Hodi_Boat.jpg?resize=395%2C139&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Nicobar Hodi\" width=\"395\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Hodi_Boat.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Hodi_Boat.jpg?resize=300%2C106&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-215378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Dinamani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hodi is the Nicobari tribe\u2019s traditional craft. It is an outrigger canoe, very commonly operated in the Nicobar group of islands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Process of Making Hodi:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The technical skills for building a hodi are based on indigenous knowledge inherited by the Nicobarese from their forefathers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The hodi is built using either locally available trees or from nearby islands and its design varies slightly from island to island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Considerations to be taken into account while building hodi include the length of the finished canoe, which has to be 12 times that of its width while the length of the undressed tree trunk has to be 15 times this width.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Uses:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Hodis are used for transporting people and goods from one island to another, for sending coconuts, and for fishing and racing purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tuhet, a group of families under a headman, consider the hodi an asset. Hodi races are held between islands and villages.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cAndaman &amp; Nicobar\u2019s first application for the Geographical Indication tag is for the Nicobari hodi craft\u201d published in The Hindu on 21st November 2022. What is the News? Andaman &amp; Nicobar Islands has filed an application, seeking the Geographical Indication(GI) tag for the Nicobari Hodi craft. This&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/andaman-nicobars-first-application-for-the-geographical-indication-tag-is-for-the-nicobari-hodi-craft\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Andaman &#038; Nicobar\u2019s first application for the Geographical Indication tag is for the Nicobari hodi craft<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-215377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}