Question

Indian council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) was established in …………………..
a. Pune
b. Bangalore
c. Mumbai
d. New Delhi

Answer 1

Hint:
The Indian Agricultural Research Council (ICAR) is an autonomous body responsible for coordinating agricultural education and research in India. It reports to the Ministry of Agricultural Research and Education, Ministry of Agriculture. The Minister of Agriculture of the United States is the President.

Complete solution:
The Agricultural Reactors Council of India (ICAR) was founded on July 16, 1929 as a company registered under the Companies Registration Act of 1860 according to a report by the Royal Commission for Agriculture. ICAR was established in New Delhi. It is the largest network of agricultural research and educational institutions in the world. The Council is the main body responsible for coordinating, directing and managing research and teaching in agriculture, including horticulture, fisheries and zoology, across the country. With 101 ICAR institutions and 71 agricultural universities across the country, it is one of the largest national agricultural systems in the world.

ICAR played an innovative role at the start of the Green Revolution and subsequent agricultural developments in India through its research and development of technology which enabled the country to increase crop production by 5.6 times, horticultural crops by 10 times, 5 fold and fish increase from 1950- 51 to 2017-18 by 16.8 times, milk by 10.4 times and eggs 52.9 times, which can be seen in the national food and the impact of nutritional security.

Hence, the correct answer is option D.

Note:
In July 2006 he developed a vaccine against bird flu. The vaccine was developed at the high-safety veterinary disease laboratory in Bhopal, the only facility in the country where the H5N1 variant of bird flu was tested. ICAR was tasked with developing a vaccine following the avian flu outbreak in February. The ICAR was provided for ICAR Rs 8 crores for the purpose.