{"id":137037,"date":"2020-09-11T00:50:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T19:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=137037"},"modified":"2020-09-11T00:50:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T19:20:50","slug":"pt-gb-pant-popular-lecture-organized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/09\/11\/pt-gb-pant-popular-lecture-organized\/","title":{"rendered":"Pt GB Pant popular lecture organized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Sep 10:<\/strong> Senior faculty members from the NERIST, the regional centres of the ZSI and the BSI, the SRSAC, DNG College, the NEIST, etc, attended the 7th &#8216;Pt GB Pant popular lecture&#8217; organized by the NE regional centre of the GB Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment (GBPNIHE) here on Thursday on the occasion of the institute&#8217;s annual day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the head of the GBPNIHE&#8217;s regional centre, MS Lodhi spoke about the activities of the institute in the Indian Himalayan region, Jorhat-based Assam Agriculture University&#8217;s VC Prof Ashok Bhattacharya delivered the popular lecture on &#8216;Agriculture in Northeast: Transition and strategies for future development under changing climate&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Bhattacharya highlighted climate change and its impact on the NE region, with special reference to agriculture and future adaptability. He elaborated the problems in the mono-cropping system faced by small farmers, &#8220;which does not provide profitable income and has low productivity, which leads to high vulnerability to climate change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The speaker recommended that &#8220;strategic planning at the local level can substantially help in making hill agriculture sustainable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Alley cropping, hedgerow, intercropping, horti-silvi-pastrol, etc, are effective methods for soil management for small farmers,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arunachal Pradesh State Council for Science &amp; Technology Director CD Mungyak highlighted the different ongoing research and development-focused activities &#8220;which are playing an important role in extending desired knowledge and support to the local farmers and other interested groups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lecture was organized on the virtual platform, in view of the Covid-19 situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Sep 10: Senior faculty members from the NERIST, the regional centres of the ZSI and the BSI, the SRSAC, DNG College, the NEIST, etc, attended the 7th &#8216;Pt GB Pant popular lecture&#8217; organized by the NE regional centre of the GB Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment (GBPNIHE) here on Thursday on the occasion [&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-137037","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\/137037","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=137037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}