{"id":137667,"date":"2020-09-23T03:46:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T22:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=137667"},"modified":"2020-09-23T03:46:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T22:16:47","slug":"trg-and-distribution-prog-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/trg-and-distribution-prog-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Trg and distribution prog held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAMSAI, Sep 22:<\/strong> The Namsai KVK conducted a series of &#8216;training-cum-piglets distribution&#8217; programmes for farmers under the DBT-funded project, &#8216;Expansion of activities of biotech kisan hub in selected seven aspirational districts of the Northeast states&#8217;, recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the programmes, the KVK&#8217;s animal science expert Dr BKD Borah encouraged the farmers to construct &#8220;scientific way of pig sheds&#8221; to protect their animals from adverse climatic conditions and diseases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Properly managed housing system, along with periodic vaccination can prevent the occurrence of fatal diseases like swine fever and African swine fever,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Borah taught the beneficiaries about feeding, breeding and managerial aspects of pig rearing before introducing piglets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KVK Head (in-charge), Dr D Sasmal explained the benefits of the project and said it would not only benefit the unit holders but also help the farmers in getting quality piglets at their doorsteps at a low cost.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The ongoing project will not only include quality pig production but also cover processing and value addition, branding, packaging and marketing of various pig products,&#8221; Dr Sasmal said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 120 piglets (both local and cross-bred varieties), along with pig feed and anthelmintics were distributed among 60 farmers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In another programme, neem cakes, neem oil and vermicompost were distributed to 25 farmers from Juna-III, Juna-IV and Nampong villages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAMSAI, Sep 22: The Namsai KVK conducted a series of &#8216;training-cum-piglets distribution&#8217; programmes for farmers under the DBT-funded project, &#8216;Expansion of activities of biotech kisan hub in selected seven aspirational districts of the Northeast states&#8217;, recently. During the programmes, the KVK&#8217;s animal science expert Dr BKD Borah encouraged the farmers to construct &#8220;scientific way of [&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-137667","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\/137667","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=137667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}