{"id":184028,"date":"2022-02-12T01:16:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T19:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=184028"},"modified":"2022-02-12T01:20:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T19:50:59","slug":"training-of-horti-farmers-concludes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/02\/12\/training-of-horti-farmers-concludes\/","title":{"rendered":"Training of horti farmers concludes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, 11 Feb:<\/strong> Thirty farmers from Kebang, Riga, Sitang and other villages of the Siang districts benefitted from a three-day training programme on &#8216;Economics of horti-based farming system for sustainable development&#8217;, which concluded at the College of Horticulture &amp; Forestry (CHF) here in East Siang district on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the programme, which was organized by the CHF&#8217;s social science department, CHF Dean Dr BN Hazarika spoke on &#8220;the scope and importance of horti-based farming system for enhancing farmers&#8217; income,&#8221; while course director Dr Lakshmi Dhar Hatai dwelt on the economics of cultivation of horticultural crops, and on horti-business and its management.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr SK Pattanaaik spoke about micro-irrigation and water management in horti-based farming system, and Dr Ch Victoria Devi delivered a lecture on &#8220;entrepreneurial development in horti- enterprise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Nangsol Dolma Bhutia demonstrated &#8220;the protected methods of cultivation under polyhouse for high-value vegetable crops,&#8221; and Dr Bikram Singh delivered a lecture on the importance of multipurpose tree species in the agro-horti-forestry system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr PK Nimbolkar demonstrated grafting methods in citrus, while Dr P Raja presented a practical demonstration on &#8220;bio-pesticides application and its integrated management in horticultural crops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr TM Chanu highlighted the horti-farming system, and Dr P Debnath showed the methods of making vermicompost units. Dr DK Pandey delivered a lecture on the &#8220;role of ICT in horti-based agro-advisory system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Certificates were later distributed to the farmers who attended the programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, 11 Feb: Thirty farmers from Kebang, Riga, Sitang and other villages of the Siang districts benefitted from a three-day training programme on &#8216;Economics of horti-based farming system for sustainable development&#8217;, which concluded at the College of Horticulture &amp; Forestry (CHF) here in East Siang district on Friday. During the programme, which was organized by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-184028","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\/184028","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=184028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}