{"id":160373,"date":"2021-06-07T00:36:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T19:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=160373"},"modified":"2021-06-07T00:36:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T19:06:42","slug":"ruksin-farmer-showing-a-path-of-self-reliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/06\/07\/ruksin-farmer-showing-a-path-of-self-reliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruksin farmer showing a path of self-reliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[Prafulla Kaman]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RUKSIN, 6 Jun:<\/strong> Jiten Taying is a progressive farmer from Ngorlung village in East Siang district. He grows cash crops, including rubber and bamboo, on a commercial basis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taying, who preferred to not do a government job in the agriculture department as a field worker, started the rubber and bamboo plantations at Tamang Paatang site in lower Ngorlung, on the bank of the Ruksin river, in 1995.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later on, he started khokan, palm oil, agar, chandan and arecanut plantations in 10 hectares of land. He also grows spices and vegetables.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two years later, the 55-year-old farmer developed four fish ponds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taying says he does not have any formal training or education in fish farming. &#8220;I have no formal education in fish farming. I got inspiration from a friend in Assam, who maintains a number of fish ponds, to take up pisciculture,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taying has engaged two families to look after his fish ponds and the farm. Presently, his fish farm produces three to four quintals of fishes, and he earns Rs 5-6 lakhs per year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also earns a good amount from the rubber plants, spices and bamboos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I earned Rs 50,000 from spices and vegetables last year,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I am trying to utilize the bad times of Covid lockdown for income-generation activities. I appeal to the state government to encourage us to achieve more in this sector,&#8221; Taying said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taying advises the local unemployed youths to engage themselves in horticulture and agricultural activities for self-reliance, instead of spoiling their valuable time and energy in search of government jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Prafulla Kaman] RUKSIN, 6 Jun: Jiten Taying is a progressive farmer from Ngorlung village in East Siang district. He grows cash crops, including rubber and bamboo, on a commercial basis. Taying, who preferred to not do a government job in the agriculture department as a field worker, started the rubber and bamboo plantations at Tamang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-160373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160373","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=160373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}