GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -In the following year, the Government decided to establish a Central Institute for Rice Research and this culminated in the establishment of the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) on April 23, 1946 at Bidyadharpur, Cuttack, Odisha with an experimental farm land of 60 hectares provided by the Government of Odisha.

Detailed explanation-2: -At the backdrop of this famine, the Government of India decided to establish a Central Institute for Rice Research, now named as National Rice Research Institute, on April 23, 1946, at Bidyadharpur, Cuttack, Odisha with an experimental farm-land of 60 hectares provided by the Government of Odisha.

Detailed explanation-3: -Are you aware that Karjat, the last suburban station on Mumbai’s Central Railway corridor, is home to the country’s first rice research institute-the Regional Agricultural Research Station (RARS)?

Detailed explanation-4: -National Rice Research Institute – Cuttack, Odisha.