{"id":152808,"date":"2021-03-13T02:09:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=152808"},"modified":"2021-03-13T02:09:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:39:21","slug":"scientific-advisory-committee-meeting-held-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/03\/13\/scientific-advisory-committee-meeting-held-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific advisory committee meeting held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TAWANG, 12 Mar:<\/strong> Scientists from Dirang-(West Kameng)-based National Yak Research Centre (NRCY), heads of agriculture and allied departments, NGO representatives and farmers from different villages participated in a scientific advisory committee meeting chaired by Tawang DC Sang Phuntsok here on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KVK Head Dr AN Tripathi briefed about the themes and objectives of the meeting. Subject matter specialists from the Tawang KVK presented their 2020-21 annual action plan to be adopted during 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The committee members resolved to take up more income generating activities for the welfare of the farming community of the district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NRCY principal scientist Dr B Paul suggested adopting integrated farming in collaboration with the KVK and the agriculture, horticulture, veterinary and other departments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DC advised the KVK scientists to introduce new technologies in mushroom cultivation, sericulture, beekeeping, yak and mithun rearing, dairy farming, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He advocated growing crop species like baby corn, saffron, blueberry, etc, and stressed on preservation of the local germplasm of crops like buckwheat, turnip, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAWANG, 12 Mar: Scientists from Dirang-(West Kameng)-based National Yak Research Centre (NRCY), heads of agriculture and allied departments, NGO representatives and farmers from different villages participated in a scientific advisory committee meeting chaired by Tawang DC Sang Phuntsok here on Friday. KVK Head Dr AN Tripathi briefed about the themes and objectives of the meeting. [&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-152808","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\/152808","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=152808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}