Name the first State of India which is dependent on organic farming.

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Correct — C, Sikkim. Sikkim is India's first fully organic state: it phased out chemical fertilisers and pesticides across its farmland and was officially declared 100% organic in January 2016. The switch was driven by the Sikkim Organic Mission, and in 2018 the state won the FAO-backed Future Policy Gold Award for the world's first fully organic agriculture policy.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) A strong trap — Madhya Pradesh has the LARGEST area under organic certification in India, but it is not a fully organic state; Sikkim was the first to convert entirely.  (b) Kerala actively promotes organic farming and framed an organic-farming policy, but it was not the first state to become fully organic.  (d) Arunachal has large tracts of default chemical-free farming and organic potential, but it was not the first officially declared organic state.

Concept: A 'fully organic state' is one where all cultivated land is certified organic — grown without synthetic fertilisers or pesticides. Sikkim reached this over roughly a decade (mission launched in 2003, completed around 2015-16) across about 75,000 hectares of farmland, becoming a global model.

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