Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research–Central Institute Of Medicinal And Aromatic Plants(CSIR-CIMAP) Research Centre is situated in _______.

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answered Mar 1, 2022 by IshmeetKaur (115k points)
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Correct Answer - Option 3 : Bageshwar

The Correct Answer is "Bageshwar".

CIMAP RC Purara, the youngest center of CIMAP, situated on the laps of Western Himalayas was established in 1995.
It is located in Katyur valley of the Bageshwar district of Uttarakhand.
The center aims to develop as a center of excellence of MAPs of the Himalayan region.
Center Activities are collection, conservation, domestication and characterization of MAPs of Uttarakhand, R&D programme for agrotechnology development for hill region, especially Uttarakhand, Integrated soil fertility management in MAPs, Training, awareness, skill up-gradation and field demonstrations for the farmers, SHGs, NGOs, State govt. and entrepreneurs, rural development by promoting medicinal and aromatic crop cultivation and technology dissemination through training and capability building, quality analysis of essential oils, an industrial-scale distillation of aromatic crops, field survey for the cultivation of MAPs and feasibility studies and multiplication of elite plant propagules of medicinal and aromatic plants.

Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, popularly known as CIMAP, is a frontier plant research laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Established originally as Central Indian Medicinal Plants Organisation (CIMPO) in 1959, CIMAP is steering multidisciplinary high-quality research in biological and chemical sciences and extending technologies and services to the farmers and entrepreneurs of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) with its research headquarter at Lucknow and Research Centres at Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pantnagar and Purana.
CIMAP Research Centres are aptly situated in different agro-climatic zones of the country to facilitate multi-location field trials and research.

Uttarakhand

Foundation Day: 9 November 2000(carved out from Uttar Pradesh on this date and became the 27th state of the Republic of India).
Capital: Gairsain(Summer), Dehradun( Winter).
Chief Minister: Tirath Singh Rawat.
Governor: Baby Rani Maurya.
State Animal: Alpine Musk Deer.
State Bird: Himalayan Monal.
State Tree: Buransh.
State Flower: Brahma Kamal.