Question: Recently in which of the following city of India First Mobile Honey Processing Van of the country has been launched?
a) Agra
b) Prayagraj
c) Kanpur
d) Ghaziabad
Answer: (d)
Related Facts:-
- On 07 January 2022; Chairman KVIC (Khadi and Village Industries Commission) Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena launched the country’s first Mobile Honey Processing Van at Village Sirora in Ghaziabad, UP.
- The Mobile Van has been designed in-house by KVIC at its Multi-disciplinary Training Centre, Panjokehra, at a cost of Rs 15 lakh.
- This mobile honey processing unit can process up to 300 KG of honey in 8 hours.
- The van is also equipped with a testing laboratory that would instantly examine the quality of honey.
- This facility under KVIC’s Honey Mission aims at training beekeepers, distributing Bee Boxes to farmers and helping rural, educated as well as unemployed youth in earning extra income.
- KVIC has come up with this unique innovation to enable beekeepers and farmers to get fair price of their honey produce.
- The programme is in line with Prime Minister’s dream of Sweet Kranti though honey production.
- The KVIC has designed the innovative Mobile Honey Processing Van that will process beekeepers’ honey at their doorsteps and thus save them the hassle and the cost of taking the honey to processing plants.
- While this will make beekeeping a more profitable business for small beekeepers; this will also maintain purity and highest quality standards of honey.
By – Rajesh Tripathi
Links:-
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1788375