Hebei: Agricultural product trademarks of Shijiazhuang exceeded 180

2011/06/28

As reported in Shijiazhuang Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce in Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang City has registered more than 180 trademarks of agricultural products by implementing the trademark strategy, thus greatly promoting the development of modern agriculture.

In recent years, focusing on the specialized and industrialized agriculture product bases such as vegetable base, fruit base and stockbreeding base, Shijiazhuang grassroots industrial and commercial departments have been exerting efforts to help at least one agricultural product  in its Jurisdiction to get registered, one registered trademark to apply for characterized agricultural product trademark and one existing agricultural product to apply for well-known or famous trademarks.

It also helps farmers to get rich by guiding them to register or properly use geographical indication collective trademarks. Up to now, there are a total of 35 kinds of characterized agricultural products and 9 geographical indications of of agricultural products. In addition, it has successfully registered four geographical indication collective trademarks, namely, "赵县雪花梨" (zhaoxian xuehuali)、"赞皇大枣"(zanhuang dazao)、"平山绵核桃" (pinshan mianhetao)、"行唐大枣"(xingtang dazao).

(Source:IPR in China)