Important Landmarks
➤ 1st Edition of Sytema Naturae - 1735
➤ 10th Edition of Systema Naturae (Starting of Binomial Nomenclature) - 1758
➤ International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) - 1895
➤ Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marketing) Act - 1937
➤ All India Coordinated Research Project on Biological Control of Crop Pests and Weeds (AICRPBC) - 1977
➤ Biodiversity Act - 2002
➤ Bombay Natural History Society - 1883
➤ Bureau of Indian Standards Act - 1986
➤ Central Insecticide Act (came into force) - 1971
➤ Central Insecticide Act (Enacted) - 1968
➤ Convention on Biological Diversity - 1972
➤ Destructive Insects and Pests Act - 1914
➤ Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine and Storage (DPPQS), Faridabad, Haryana - 1946
➤ Domestic Quarantine Act (enforced) - 1971
➤ Entomological Society of India - 1938
➤ Environment Protection Act - 1986
➤ Fauna of British India Series - 1892
➤ Foreign Trade Development and Regulation Act - 1992
➤ Locust Warning Organization (LWO), Jodhpur - 1939
➤ Nation Bureau of Agriculturally Important Insects (Formerly Project Directorate of Biological control (PDBC)), Bengaluru - 1993
➤ National Centre for Integrated Pest Management (NCIPM), New Delhi - 1988
➤ National Food Safety and Standard Act - 2006
➤ National Plant Protection Training Institute, Hyderabad - 1966
➤ Plant Quarantine (Regulation for import into India) Order - 2003
➤ Plant Quarantine Act - 1912
➤ Prevention of Food Adulteration Act - 1954
➤ Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers Rights Act - 2001
➤ Standard of Weights and Measures Act - 1976
➤ Warehouse Development and Regulation Act - 2007
➤ Wild Life (Protection) Act - 1972
➤ World Trade Organization - 1995
➤ Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Kolkata - 1916
➤ Transgenic crops commercially grown for first time in the world - 1996
➤ Bt cotton is commercially released in India by GEAC of Ministry of Environment and Forestry - 2002
➤ Domestic Quarantine Act was enforced in 1971 under Madras Agriculture Pest Act(1919)
➤ Prevention of Food Adulteration Act of 1954 is replaced by National Food Safety and Standard Act - 2006
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