Who is the Chairman of APEDA, as named at the flag-off of the frozen food consignment?

The correct answer is Canada. The consignment of frozen food products was flagged off from Sonipat in Haryana for the Canadian market, it was exported by Aterna Foods Producer Company Limited, and the Chairman of APEDA said at the event that he expected exports to Canada to grow further. Option A, Greece, is the destination of a different Indian agricultural shipment and is the kind of distractor that catches a candidate who remembers the produce but not the market. Option C, Australia, and option D, the United Arab Emirates, are both large buyers of Indian processed food but have no part in this particular consignment. The pairing to carry into the examination hall is simple: frozen vegetables and snacks, Sonipat in Haryana, and Canada as the destination, with APEDA facilitating the shipment under its support scheme.

The correct answer is CAD 35,140. The consignment comprised 2,295 boxes of frozen food products weighing 24 MT in all, and its declared shipment value was CAD 35,140, the currency being the Canadian dollar because the buyer is in Canada. Option A is a lower figure of the same shape, placed there to catch a candidate who recalls the trailing digits but not the leading one. Options C and D mix the value with the box count, since the number 2,295 belongs to the boxes in the container and not to the money. The three figures in this story should be filed separately while revising: 24 MT is the weight, 2,295 is the number of boxes, and CAD 35,140 is the value. Questions on export consignments are usually set on exactly this kind of separation.

The correct answer is more than 7000 MT worth about USD 22 million, shipped to more than twenty international destinations during that financial year. The other three options carry invented tonnages and values of the kind an examiner inserts to see whether a candidate has learnt the pair of figures together rather than one of them alone. The minister placed these numbers in a wider setting: the state government is preparing an Agri Export Policy meant to lift farmer incomes through export promotion, and packhouses have already been developed to serve the makhana export value chain. He described the shipment to Greece as a milestone for the state makhana sector. For revision, link the quantity, the value and the number of destinations as one line, and attach to it the single tonne of popped phool makhana that made up this particular consignment.

The correct answer is Mundra Port, from which the shipment moves to the Piraeus Port in Greece. Option A, Kandla, lies on the same Gujarat coast and is the strongest distractor for that reason. Option C names the large container port near Mumbai and option D the eastern river port, either of which could in principle handle such cargo but neither of which carried this consignment. The port pair is the kind of detail examiners like because it tests whether a candidate read past the headline: Mundra at the Indian end and Piraeus at the Greek end. Remember alongside it that the lot was sourced by Indo Global Export of Belouri in Purnea and exported through S. S Foods Exports Private Limited of New Delhi, and that the flag-off was chaired by the Bihar Agriculture Minister in the presence of the APEDA Chairman.

The correct answer is Bihar, which contributes about eighty to eighty-five per cent of the national output, with India itself the global leader in makhana production. Cultivation in the state is spread across more than thirty-five thousand hectares in ten districts. Options A, B and D name states with wetlands and pond-based farming where the crop is also grown or could be grown, which makes them reasonable distractors, but none carries anything near the Bihar share. Two institutions give the crop its scientific backing and are worth remembering with the state: Bihar Agricultural University at Sabour, and the National Research Centre for Makhana run by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research at Darbhanga. A question may ask for either the share, the area, the district count, or the research centre, so all four should be learnt as one cluster.