By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Apr. 12: The government has declared orange
as the national fruit.
The meeting of the Council of Ministers held today decided to recognize
orange as the national fruit.
Government spokesperson and Minister for Communication and Information
Technology Rekha Sharma informed that the Cabinet meeting decided to recognize orange
as the national fruit.
Agriculture Ministry has presented the proposal to declare orange as
the national fruit following a series of discussion over the proposal put forth
on the issue by National Agriculture Genetic Resources Center Genebank. The
Genebank has conducted research on orange and forwarded proposal to declare it
as national fruit to the ministry.