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Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra is the first cooperative sugar factory was established. Asia's first cooperative sugar factory was established at Pravaranagar in the Ahmednagar District of the then Bombay state in 1950 by Vithalrao Vikhe Patil & Gadgil.
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It is one of the major rivers of peninsular India with the length of around 724 km; it runs from east to west. Tapi River rises near Multai in the Betul district of Madhya Pradesh at an elevation of about 752 m and flows for about 724 km before outfalling into the Arabian Sea through the Gulf of Cambay.
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Raja Maharaj Singh was the first Indian Governor of Bombay. He was also the Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir during Maharaja Hari Singh's rule and also the Dewan of Jodhpur for a short while. Singh at a baseball match in Bombay in 1949.
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Ratnagiri is famous for the production of Mangoes. The Ratnagiri district is especially famous for mangoes. More than 65,000 acres of land is under mango cultivation and the biggest production of Alphonso mangoes in India is in Ratnagiri.
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Gopal Ganesh Agarkar started the newspaper "Sudharak". Ganesh Agarkar was an Indian social reformer from Maharashtra. He was a close associate of Bal Gangadhar Tilak. He was the first editor of the weekly Kesari.
28. Who became the first Grandmaster in Chess from Maharashtra?
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Pravin Thipsay became the first Grandmaster in Chess from Maharashtra. He is the first Indian to get a chess Grandmaster norm and the first Indian to win the Commonwealth Chess Championship.