{"id":138411,"date":"2020-09-30T02:03:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T20:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=138411"},"modified":"2020-09-30T02:03:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T20:33:02","slug":"awareness-progs-on-lead-folder-infestation-held-in-tirap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/09\/30\/awareness-progs-on-lead-folder-infestation-held-in-tirap\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness progs on lead folder infestation held in Tirap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KHONSA, Sep 29:<\/strong> In a bid to contain the spread of leaf folder infestation in Tirap district, the agriculture department organized several rounds of &#8216;awareness meeting-cum-counselling&#8217; with the farmers of Khela and other villages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Interacting with the farmers and ADOs, DAO Pangnyai Khoisia informed that the agriculture department is taking all possible steps to contain the pest infestation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Emergency procurement of sprayers and insecticides have been made,&#8221; the DAO said, and added that &#8220;if mass spraying has not been done on time, things could go out of hand as the larvae have grown, which can cause destruction beyond control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some medicines have been handed over to the Deomali ADO for spraying, the DAO said, and added that &#8220;this time, pheromone traps were also distributed and displayed in the field to contain massive spread of the pest infestation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khoisia further informed that the State Remote Sensing Application Centre in Itanagar has been using drones to map the recent flood-affected areas and severe pests infestations on paddy crops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DC (in-charge) Kretkam Tikhak commended the DAO and his subordinate officials for taking steps to contain the pest infestation in the interest of the district&#8217;s farming community. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHONSA, Sep 29: In a bid to contain the spread of leaf folder infestation in Tirap district, the agriculture department organized several rounds of &#8216;awareness meeting-cum-counselling&#8217; with the farmers of Khela and other villages. Interacting with the farmers and ADOs, DAO Pangnyai Khoisia informed that the agriculture department is taking all possible steps to contain [&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-138411","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\/138411","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=138411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}