{"id":168672,"date":"2021-08-09T01:22:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T19:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=168672"},"modified":"2021-08-09T01:22:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T19:52:54","slug":"rural-haat-foundation-stone-laid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/08\/09\/rural-haat-foundation-stone-laid\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural haat foundation stone laid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAMSAI, 8 Aug:<\/strong> NABARD General Manager Partho Saha laid the foundation stone of a rural haat in Mahadevpur II in Namsai district on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Funded by the NABARD&#8217;s Itanagar-based regional office, the project will be implemented by farmers-producers company Namsai Organic Spices and Agricultural Products (NOSAAP) Producer Co Ltd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NOSAAP CEO Chau Athina Chauhai said that the rural haat would be one of its kind in the state &#8220;in terms of unique infrastructure and methods of marketing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At present, the farmers of the nearby villages sell their vegetables along the roadside without any permanent shed\/structure. The rural haat would mitigate the marketing hardships faced by the local farmers, vegetable growers and women SHGs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NABARD DDM Kamal Roy said that the location of the haat at the trijunction of Namsai, Tinsukia (Assam) and Changlang would boost the sales of local produces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saha later gave away an Azolla bed for production and culture of Azolla, under the NABARD-funded LEDP project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Azolla, which is a freshwater fern that lives in ponds, lakes, swamps and streams in tropical and sub-tropical conditions, can be fed to livestock in either fresh or dried form. One Azolla bed is given to a cluster of five farmers. It is used as a demonstration unit, and also produces raw materials for making Azolla-based feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAMSAI, 8 Aug: NABARD General Manager Partho Saha laid the foundation stone of a rural haat in Mahadevpur II in Namsai district on Sunday. Funded by the NABARD&#8217;s Itanagar-based regional office, the project will be implemented by farmers-producers company Namsai Organic Spices and Agricultural Products (NOSAAP) Producer Co Ltd. NOSAAP CEO Chau Athina Chauhai said [&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-168672","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\/168672","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=168672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}