North-eastern state Sikkim has won the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) Future Policy Award 2018 for being the world's first 100 percent organic state.
Sikkim defeated 51 nominated policies from 25 countries and won the Gold Prize of the Future Policy Award 2018, also known as “Oscar for Best Policies”.
In 2015, Sikkim was announced as the first organic state in the world.
This year’s award was co-organised by
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),