Madhya Pradesh government will keep fighting for a geographical indication tag for basmati rice grown in the state.Basmati has been cultivated across 13 districts of the state for the last 105 years and around 80,000 farmers are associated with the cultivation. Several tests have qualified the quality of rice grown in the state as basmati. Geographical Indication Registry rejected Madhya Pradesh’s plea to be included among states whose variety of rice can be marketed as basmati.The state had demanded the inclusion of a few of its districts Morena, Bhind, Gwalior, Sheopur, Datia, Shivpuri, Guna, Vidisha, Raisen, Sehore, Hoshangabad, Jabalpur, and Narsingpur under the regions suitable for cultivation of basmati.