{"id":180258,"date":"2021-12-24T01:59:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T20:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=180258"},"modified":"2021-12-24T01:59:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T20:29:02","slug":"natl-farmers-day-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/12\/24\/natl-farmers-day-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat&#8217;l Farmers&#8217; Day celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TAJI-PARAM, 23 Dec:<\/strong> The Upper Subansiri Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) celebrated National Farmers&#8217; Day (Kisan Diwas) at Taji-Param village on 23 December, marking the birth anniversary of former prime minister and farmer leader Chaudhary Charan Singh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Themed &#8216;Uttam kheti, unnat kisan&#8217;, the celebration saw the participation of 30 farmers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme featured a kisan mela, a training programme on &#8216;waste to wealth&#8217;, composting, etc, screening of a film on agriculture technologies for waste management, and felicitation of farmers and groups for their exemplary cleanliness initiatives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Leparada district, 560 farmers along with members of local SHGs participated in the celebration organized at Gori by the West Siang KVK and Basar-based ICAR state centre. The event, which was inaugurated by Basar MLA Gokar Basar, featured 32 exhibition stalls set up by SHGs and the agriculture and allied departments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Longding district, the Longding battalion of the Assam Rifles celebrated the day in collaboration with the Wancho Farmers Welfare Association.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The event featured awareness generation on agriculture-based schemes, scientific and modern techniques of farming, and exhibition of indigenous Wancho farm products and agricultural equipment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kanubari MLA Gabriel D Wangsu also attended the programme. (With DIPRO input)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAJI-PARAM, 23 Dec: The Upper Subansiri Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) celebrated National Farmers&#8217; Day (Kisan Diwas) at Taji-Param village on 23 December, marking the birth anniversary of former prime minister and farmer leader Chaudhary Charan Singh. Themed &#8216;Uttam kheti, unnat kisan&#8217;, the celebration saw the participation of 30 farmers. The programme featured a kisan mela, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-180258","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\/180258","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=180258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}