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PALIN, 1 Feb:<\/strong> Agriculture & Horticulture Minister Tage Taki on Monday urged the people to take up agriculture, horticulture and allied activities for economic sustainability and self-reliance.<\/p>\n Taki was addressing the inaugural ceremony of the 28-day Nyokum festival celebration here in Kra Daadi district. He also kicked off the sporting activities at the general ground here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n “The time has come to look beyond government jobs and look for self-employment generation avenues through agriculture and horticulture activities,” he said.<\/p>\n “How long will we depend on other states for our requirements? During the Covid lockdown and during blockades imposed by neighbouring states, we suffer a lot.<\/p>\n Right from food to vegetable and every other thing, we are dependent on others. This needs to change,” said Taki.<\/p>\n He urged the people to remain united and preserve the cultural and traditional identity of the tribal society. He also announced that a state-of-the-art piggery and dairy development building would be established here.<\/p>\n MLA Kumsi Sidisow, who was also present, motivated the people to preserve their age-old cultural heritage and traditional values. He said that the festival “should be celebrated with oneness, without discrimination to any religion and faith.”<\/p>\n “Our tribal festival is deeply rooted in our culture and tradition, which need to be preserved and promoted,” he added.<\/p>\n Sports Authority of Arunachal Chairman Byabang Taj, Tali MLA Jikke Tako, Palin-Chambang MLA Balo Raja, former MP and veteran Congress leader Takam Sanjoy, and KVIB Chairman Dominic Tadar also addressed the gathering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PALIN, 1 Feb: Agriculture & Horticulture Minister Tage Taki on Monday urged the people to take up agriculture, horticulture and allied activities for economic sustainability and self-reliance. Taki was addressing the inaugural ceremony of the 28-day Nyokum festival celebration here in Kra Daadi district. He also kicked off the sporting activities at the general ground […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-183159","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\/183159","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=183159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}