Which village in Nalanda district of Bihar was declared a Mushroom Village by the State Agriculture Department?
- A.Anantpur
- B.Harnaut
- C.Madhopur
- D.Ippatam
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Explanation
The correct answer is Anantpur. Mushroom growing in that village began with Anita Devi, who took guidance from the Krishi Vigyan Kendra at Harnaut block in 2010 and raised oyster and milky white mushrooms on farm waste. As the practice spread to her neighbours and then to nearby villages, the State Agriculture Department declared Anantpur a Mushroom Village in 2012, and she came to be called the Mushroom Mahila. Harnaut is wrong because it is the block where the Krishi Vigyan Kendra that trained her is located, not the village so declared. Madhopur is wrong because it names the Farmers Producers Company Limited she floated to link growers and sellers with schemes and markets. Ippatam, in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, is the village of Ruthu, a former waste picker who took to milky mushrooms. By 2023 more than 250 women of Jeevika Self-Help Groups in Nalanda were in this work.
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Practice Questions
Anita Devi set up her spawn production laboratory with a subsidy from which mission?
- A.National Horticulture Mission
- B.National Food Security Mission
- C.National Livestock Mission
- D.National Bamboo Mission
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Good quality spawn had become the binding constraint as mushroom growing spread from Anantpur to the villages around it, so the laboratory addressed a critical input rather than production itself.
Read the full explanation →Under which initiative did Ruthu of Ippatam village receive short-term training in mushroom production?
- A.Skill Training for Rural Youth
- B.Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana
- C.Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana
- D.Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana
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Ruthu of Ippatam village in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, was a waste picker at the age of 20 when she joined a short course under this initiative at Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Guntur.
Read the full explanation →The Scheduled Caste scholar from Tamil Nadu described in the Ministry's account is pursuing his doctorate at which university?
- A.Tampere University, Finland
- B.Uppsala University, Sweden
- C.Aarhus University, Denmark
- D.University of Oslo, Norway
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He comes from Tamil Nadu, completed an M.Tech before taking up doctoral work, and his research is in experimental cancer biology, covering animal model development, molecular signalling and therapeutic approaches to glioblastoma and other disorders related to brain cancer.
Read the full explanation →On being upgraded from Junior Research Fellow to Senior Research Fellow in 2024, approximately how much additional government assistance did the beneficiary receive?
- A.Rs 25,000
- B.Rs 50,000
- C.Rs 75,000
- D.Rs 1,00,000
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That upgradation is the point at which support under the fellowship rises, and the extra amount strengthened his financial position so that he could carry on with his academic work.
Read the full explanation →Which Union Ministry administers the National Fellowship for Scheduled Caste Students?
- A.Ministry of Education
- B.Ministry of Tribal Affairs
- C.Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
- D.Ministry of Science and Technology
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The correct answer is the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, which runs this fellowship and which published both the accounts of supported scholars.
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