Correct answer: (c) Sikkim (India)
Explanation
- A
Queensland (Australia)
(a) Queensland (Australia). A large agricultural state, not certified as the world’s first fully organic State.
- B
California (United States of America)
(b) California (United States of America). Huge organic acreage, but not a 100 percent organic State.
- C
Sikkim (India)
(c) Sikkim (India). Sikkim was recognised (UN FAO, 2018) as the first fully organic State: all farmland brought under organic practices after a State policy begun in 2003 and completed around 2015–16. (c) Official key.
- D
Quebec (Canada)
(d) Quebec (Canada). Not the first 100 percent organic State in the world.
Summary. Official key is (c). Sikkim is the textbook first 100 percent organic State. Queensland, California and Quebec are large farm regions without that statewide organic tag.