CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -In November 2021, Union Minister Piyush Goyal virtually launched India’s first digital food museum in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu.

Detailed explanation-2: -Q. Where is India’s first Food Museum launched? Notes: The Union Minister for Commerce, Industry, Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal has virtually inaugurated the India’s first Food Museum at Thanjavur / Tanjore, Tamil Nadu.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has set up the country’s first food museum in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, in association with the Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum (VITM), Bengaluru.

Detailed explanation-4: -Piyush Goyal launched India’s first digital food museum in Tamil Nadu in November 2021. It is also known as India’s first Food Security Museum. It is located at Thanjavur (birthplace of the FCI), Tamil Nadu, where FCI was inaugurated 56 years ago on 14 January 1965.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Museum has been set up at Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, which is also the cultural capital of the state. The FCI Food Musem has been setup to digitally exhibit the foodgrain production scenario in India and across the globe also to also highlight the challenges with regards to Food Storage.