{"id":139112,"date":"2020-10-08T02:32:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T21:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=139112"},"modified":"2020-10-08T02:32:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T21:02:39","slug":"training-on-mechanized-spawn-production-oyster-mushroom-cultivation-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/10\/08\/training-on-mechanized-spawn-production-oyster-mushroom-cultivation-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Training on mechanized spawn production &#038; oyster mushroom cultivation underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, Oct 7:<\/strong> Thirty progressive farmers from four districts of the state took part in an ICAR- Directorate of Mushroom Research, Solan (Himachal Pradesh) sponsored three-day training on &#8216;Mechanized spawn production and oyster mushroom cultivation&#8217; that began at the College of Horticulture and Forestry, CAU, here in East Siang district on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his inaugural speech, College of Horticulture and Forestry, CAU Dean Prof BN Hazarika shared his experience on farming and the role of extension functionaries for technology transfer among farmers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also spoke on the potential of oyster mushroom cultivation in the region and commercial-scale spawn production during Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Plant Protection HOD Dr DB Ahuja highlighted nutritional values of mushroom and stated that &#8220;the resources created in the institute can be best used for the farming community of the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director and principal investigator of AICRP on mushroom course, Dr RC Shakywar stated that the Ministry of Education, GoI has also included mushroom in the mid-day meal programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, Oct 7: Thirty progressive farmers from four districts of the state took part in an ICAR- Directorate of Mushroom Research, Solan (Himachal Pradesh) sponsored three-day training on &#8216;Mechanized spawn production and oyster mushroom cultivation&#8217; that began at the College of Horticulture and Forestry, CAU, here in East Siang district on Wednesday. In his inaugural [&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-139112","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\/139112","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=139112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}