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Detailed explanation-1: -Notes: India’s 1st Certified Organic Fruit – Arunachal Pradesh Kiwis have been launched by the Union Minister Kiren Rijiju. Arunachal Pradesh has become the first Indian state to obtain organic certification for Kiwi under the scheme - Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North East Region.

Detailed explanation-2: -Arunachal Pradesh: India’s 1st Certified Organic Fruit Kiwi Launched. Produce can be called organic if it’s certified to have grown on soil that had no prohibited substances applied for three years prior to harvest. Prohibited substances include most synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.

Detailed explanation-3: -Arunachal Pradesh is the 1st Indian state, that obtained “organic certification of kiwifruit” under the “Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North East Region (MOVCD-NER)”, which is a Central Government scheme launched for North-eastern states.

Detailed explanation-4: -Kiwi is mostly grown in the mid hills of Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, J & K, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Kerala. Having been very newly introduced in the country estimates of area and production have not yet become available. The fruit has high nutritive and medicinal value.

Detailed explanation-5: -Tage Rita Rakhe is India’s first organic wine brewer and she developed India’s first organic kiwi wine from the fruit in Arunachal. The Government of India conferred the Nari Shakti Purashkar for the year 2021 to Rita for the achievement. But how did this journey start?