Sikkim has become India’s first fully organic state by converting approximately 75,000 hectares of cultivated land into organic farmland. Bestowed with varied agro-climatic conditions, some of the major crops produced in Sikkim include cardamom, ginger, turmeric, off-season vegetables, flowers, Sikkim mandarin, kiwi, buck wheat, paddy maize and millets. Free of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, organic farming leads to bio-diversity conservation and environmental protection. Resorts are now marketing themselves as completely organic; tourists can pluck, cook and relish fresh organic food from their kitchen gardens.
The Sikkim Organic Festival 2016 has been organized on the sidelines of the National Conference on Sustainable Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. On this occasion, PM also launched three new orchid species developed in Sikkim which is also known as the Land of Flowers viz. Cymbidium Sardar (named after Sardar Patel), Cymbidium Deen Dayal (named after Deen Dayal Upaddhyay) and Cymbidium Namo (named after Narendra Modi).
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