{"id":125492,"date":"2020-05-21T01:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T19:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=125492"},"modified":"2020-05-21T01:01:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T19:31:22","slug":"govt-to-enhance-economy-of-farmers-through-apiculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/05\/21\/govt-to-enhance-economy-of-farmers-through-apiculture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Govt to enhance economy of farmers through apiculture\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/\u2018Govt-to-enhance-economy-of-farmers-through-apiculture\u2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-125506 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/\u2018Govt-to-enhance-economy-of-farmers-through-apiculture\u2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/\u2018Govt-to-enhance-economy-of-farmers-through-apiculture\u2019.jpg 394w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/\u2018Govt-to-enhance-economy-of-farmers-through-apiculture\u2019-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/\u2018Govt-to-enhance-economy-of-farmers-through-apiculture\u2019-356x220.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a>World Honeybee Day<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAHARLAGUN, May 20:<\/strong> Agriculture and Horticulture Secretary Bidol Tayeng has said the state government is contemplating on enhancing the economy of the farmers through apiculture.<br \/>\nSpeaking during the World Honeybee Day celebration at the conference hall of the directorate of agriculture here on Wednesday, Tayeng said that the bees play a significant role in the ecosystem and help enhance the economy of the farmers.<br \/>\n&#8220;Though tiny in size, bees play an important role in plant pollination and help the farmers in generating income by producing honey,&#8221; Tayeng said.<br \/>\nStating that the honey produced by the beekeepers in the state is pure and organic, he urged the farmers to maintain the same tempo.<br \/>\nInforming that bee keeping will help in producing more agriculture and horticulture crops in the state, Tayeng sought proper coordination among the officials of the agriculture, horticulture, APKVIB and bankers to help the farmers.<br \/>\nHe also stressed on prioritising the market linkage for honey producers.<br \/>\nArunachal Pradesh Bee &amp; Honey Mission (APBHM) Director TD Neeckom said the department has helped many beekeepers in Changlang, Papum Pare and East Siang districts and further extended its activities in seven other notified districts.<br \/>\nStating that the sole motive of the mission is to enhance the economy of the farmers, Neeckom said that the APBHM is emphasizing on three mini missions-sensitization and capacity building, entrepreneurship development and forward linkage.<br \/>\nHe also stressed on the need for identification and development of artificial queen through insemination, organizing trainers training and development of honeybee production centres.<br \/>\nAgriculture Director Anong Lego said the department is looking forward to help more farmers in the coming days to take up apiculture.<br \/>\nApex Bank General Manager T Wangdi said credit link policy needs to be taken up by the agriculture department in collaboration with the Apex Bank to help the farmers.<br \/>\nAgriculture Marketing Director Tadu Game, ADO and APBHM member Techi Taura and APAMB CEO Okit Palling also spoke.<br \/>\nMany farmers from Papum Pare and Lower Subansiri districts also attended and shared their experiences on bee-keeping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Honeybee Day NAHARLAGUN, May 20: Agriculture and Horticulture Secretary Bidol Tayeng has said the state government is contemplating on enhancing the economy of the farmers through apiculture. Speaking during the World Honeybee Day celebration at the conference hall of the directorate of agriculture here on Wednesday, Tayeng said that the bees play a significant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-125492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}