{"id":173820,"date":"2021-10-10T00:11:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T18:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=173820"},"modified":"2021-10-10T00:11:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T18:41:32","slug":"icar-ciari-training-programme-on-high-yielding-varieties-of-rice-for-andaman-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/10\/10\/icar-ciari-training-programme-on-high-yielding-varieties-of-rice-for-andaman-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"ICAR-CIARI training programme on high yielding varieties of rice for Andaman farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Port Blair, Oct 9 (PTI) To help the farmers of Andaman and Nicobar Islands get high yield from rice cultivation, the Central Island Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-CIARI) organised a training cum awareness programme, an official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme to cultivate high yielding varieties of rice was organised at Shoal Bay-19, Ferrargunj in South Andaman district on October 7, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the programme Principal Scientist and Head (I\/C) CIARI, P K Singh emphasised about improved rice-varieties developed by ICAR-CIARI for Andaman and Nicobar Islands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Principal Scientist and in-charge, Social Science Section, Dr S K Zamir Ahmad briefed the farmers about disease and pest management in rice crop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A large number of farmers of the area attended the training cum awareness programme, he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ICAR-CIARI provides a research base to improve the productivity of agri-horticulture, livestock and fisheries of Andaman and Nicobar Islands through basic, applied and adaptive research.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Blair, Oct 9 (PTI) To help the farmers of Andaman and Nicobar Islands get high yield from rice cultivation, the Central Island Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-CIARI) organised a training cum awareness programme, an official said. The programme to cultivate high yielding varieties of rice was organised at Shoal Bay-19, Ferrargunj in South Andaman district [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-173820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173820","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=173820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}