{"id":105030,"date":"2020-12-08T12:11:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T12:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=105030"},"modified":"2020-12-08T12:11:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T12:11:11","slug":"arunachal-kiwi-gets-organic-fruit-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/arunachal-kiwi-gets-organic-fruit-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"Arunachal Kiwi gets Organic Fruit Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which state Kiwifruit has first obtained the organic fruit certification?<br><\/strong>(a) Arunachal Pradesh<br>(b) Himachal Pradesh<br>(c) Sikkim<br>(d) Meghalaya<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Arunachal Pradesh became the first state in India to get the organic fruit certification for the Kiwis grown in Zero Valley.<\/li><li>The organic certification was provided by the Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North East Region (MOVCD-NER), a scheme for the northeastern states by the Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Farmers\u2019 Welfare under the Central government.<\/li><li>Organic fruit certification implies that there are no chemical fertilisers or pesticides involved in its cultivation process.<\/li><li>Such certification involves years long strict scientific assessment by by the regulatory body, Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA).<\/li><li>Kiwis of Ziro Valley \u2014 located in Lower Subansiri district \u2014 were certified as organic following a standard three-year-process.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About Kiwi fruit:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa)or Chinese gooseberry, originally grew wild in China.<\/li><li>It was introduced in New Zealand in 1904 by a schoolteacher who had returned from China with the seeds. The New Zealanders called it \u201ckiwi\u201d after their national bird.<\/li><li>Kiwi is a deciduous fruiting vine native to Yangtze river valley of south and central China. It is also called \u201cChina\u2019s miracle fruit\u201d and \u201cHorticulture wonder of New Zealand\u201d.<\/li><li>A domesticated variety of kiwi was introduced as a commercial fruit only in 2000 in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/li><li>Kiwi cultivation is conducive to areas experiencing 700-800 chilling hours (no. of hours during which temperature remains at or below 7 C during the winter season).<\/li><li>The plant can be grown at 800-1500 m. above mean seal level. A rainfall of about 150 cm. \/year is sufficient.<\/li><li>Deep, rich, well-drained sandy loam soils are ideal for cultivation of kiwi. A soil pH slightly less than 6.9 results in maximum yield but higher pH upto 7.3 adversely affects the yield due to Mn deficiency.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By-Amar Mani Upadhyay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-the-rise-of-the-wild-arunachal-kiwi-7074129\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-the-rise-of-the-wild-arunachal-kiwi-7074129\/<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhb.gov.in\/model-project-reports\/Horticulture%20Crops\/Kiwi\/Kiwi1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.nhb.gov.in\/model-project-reports\/Horticulture%20Crops\/Kiwi\/Kiwi1.htm<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/271232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/271232<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which state Kiwifruit has first obtained the organic fruit certification?(a) Arunachal Pradesh(b) Himachal Pradesh(c) Sikkim(d) MeghalayaAnswer: (a)Related facts: Arunachal Pradesh became the first state in India to get the organic fruit certification for the Kiwis grown in Zero Valley. The organic certification was provided by the Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North East [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":105031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-105030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105032,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105030\/revisions\/105032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}