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2017

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Union Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare Minister has laid the foundation stone of the Banana Research Centre at in which city
A
Bikaner
B
Ambala
C
Rourkela
D
Vaishali
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Shri Kailash Choudhary, Union Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare laid the Foundation Stone of the New Building of ICAR-National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Regional Centre, Delhi here today.

Detailed explanation-2: -ICAR-National Research Centre of Banana, Tiruchirappalli.

Detailed explanation-3: -ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana was established on 21st August 1993 at Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu by ICAR, New Delhi with an aim to increase the production and productivity of bananas and plantains through mission mode basic and strategic research approaches.

Detailed explanation-4: -Maharashtra is the principal producing state. The Agriculture Marketing Board of the state has established ‘Mahabanana’, a farmers’ marketing organization in the year 2002 with headquarters at Jalgaon.

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