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Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 749

Q749

1st commercial vegetable seed production unit in India was set up in 1942 at

A.
Quetta
Answer
B.
Katrain
C.
Kullu
D.
Pusa, Bihar

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
1st commercial vegetable seed production unit in India was set up in 1942 at Quetta.
Seed production of temperate vegetable varieties was started at Quetta (Pakistan), as the seed supplies were cut-off due to World war-II in 1942.
Supplies of vegetable seeds were cut off from Quetta after the partition of the country.