{"id":11587,"date":"2023-06-06T02:18:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T20:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11587"},"modified":"2025-03-30T03:30:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T22:00:34","slug":"lavender-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lavender-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavender Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Lavender Festival:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the 2nd year of the lavender revolution. <strong>Bhaderwah <\/strong>has emerged as the Lavender capital of India and an Agri StartUp destination.<\/li>\n<li>The Council of Scientific &amp; Industrial Research- Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR-IIIM) in supporting farmers in the cultivation of Lavender in the <strong>Bhaderwah, Doda district, J&amp;K<\/strong> under <strong>CSIR-Aroma Mission.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about CSIR-Aroma Mission:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>flagship project<\/strong> of CSIR under which Lavender cultivation is being promoted in the temperate regions of J&amp;K.<\/li>\n<li>It was launched under <strong>the Ministry of Science and Technology.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The project aims <strong>to increase the income<\/strong> of small and marginal farmers and develop agriculture-based Startups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is Lavender?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>flowering plant<\/strong> in the mint family that\u2019s easily identified by its sweet floral scent.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s believed to be <strong>native to the Mediterranean<\/strong>, the Middle East, and India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the flagship project?<\/h3>\n<p>A flagship project refers to a significant, high-profile, program that represents a key priority for an organization, government, or institution. It is typically a prominent and visible undertaking that aims to achieve specific objectives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1929731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Bhaderwah has emerged as the Lavender capital of India and Agri StartUp destination, says Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the 2nd year of the lavender revolution. Bhaderwah has emerged as the Lavender capital of India and an Agri StartUp destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}