Question: Recently Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Radha Mohan Singh inaugurated the four day Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Krishi Unnati Mela – 2016 in which of the following city?
(a) New Delhi
(b) Mathura
(c) Agra
(d) Patna
Ans: (b)
Related facts:
- On 26 September 2016 Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister, Radha Mohan Singh inaugurated the four days Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Krishi Unnati Mela – 2016, in Mathura.
- On this occasion he has requested farmers and entrepreneurs that they take more and more benefit from agriculture fair.
- He appreciated the role of concerned officers of National Horticulture Board, Ministry of Agriculture and different departments of Government of India for organizing the fair at Mathura.
- The Agriculture Minister laid foundation stone of first Gokul Gram Project in Mathura.
- On this occasion he said that government has prepared a plan to establish 14 Gokul Gram in the country under Gokul Mission.
- He first Gokul Gram is going to be established in Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay’s birth place, Mathura.
- Gokul Gram will work as a centre for development of native breed cattle and it will work to supplement resources of cattle of farmers in breeding areas.
- Earlier the Agriculture Minister inaugurated a waste sewage water treatment plant in Mathura.
- This plant has developed a unique indigenous technique facility for treatment & recycle of sewage water into irrigation water by Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
Reference:
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