Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Piyush Goyal opened India’s first Museum.
Highlights:
The Food Corporation of India created a food security museum in Thanjavur.
Food Corporation of India (Fci) and Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museums, Bengaluru, collaborated on the museum’s creation.
It was constructed on a 1,860sqft plot at a cost of Rs 1.10 crore.
In Thanjavur, the birthplace of FCI, a museum was erected. On January 14, 1965, FCI opened its first office there.
The Food Security Museum depicts man’s progression from nomadic hunter groups to stable Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture practises, which marks the start of civilization.
It also highlights a number of historical global and indigenous grain storage technologies, as well as storage issues and food grain production situations in the globe and India.
It dynamically displays educational material about FCI’s HISTORY, current operations, and the path of food grains from farm to plate through FCI.