Where is the National Institute of Organic Farming located in India? (MCAER 2020)

✅Explanation: The National Centre of Organic Farming has been renamed as National Centre for Organic and Natural Farming (NCONF), Ghaziabad in March 2022 with five Regional Centres for Organic and Natural Farming (RCONFs) located at Ghaziabad (North Zone), Bengaluru (South Zone), Bhubaneshwar (East Zone), Nagpur (West and Central) and Imphal (North East zone).

🔑Key Points:

✏️National Center for Organic Farming:
-Nodal organization for promoting organic farming under the INM Division, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare, Government of India.
-Established in 2004 under the Soil Health Management component of the National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA).

✏️Other Related Institutes:
-National Centre for Organic Farming: Ghaziabad
-Central Forest Research Institute: Dehradun, Uttarakhand
-National Dairy Research Institute: Karnal, Haryana
-National Institute of Communicable Diseases: Delhi
-Central Road Research Institute: New Delhi
-Central Coconut Research Institute: Kerala
-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute: Nagpur
-National Botanical Research Institute: Lucknow
-Central Potato Research Institute: Shimla
-Central Sugarcane Research Institute: Coimbatore