{"id":184128,"date":"2022-02-13T01:10:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T19:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=184128"},"modified":"2022-02-13T01:10:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T19:40:55","slug":"workshop-on-improved-rice-cultivation-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/02\/13\/workshop-on-improved-rice-cultivation-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop on improved rice cultivation held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SEREN, 12 Feb:<\/strong> A workshop on &#8216;Improved cultivation practice of rice&#8217; was held at Seren village in Lower Siang district recently under &#8216;Project Arik Abik Lunom&#8217;, a mobile-based agro advisory service in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Forty-seven farmers of the village participated in the programme, which was conducted by Pasighat-based College of Horticulture &amp; Forestry, in collaboration with the union electronics &amp; IT ministry&#8217;s Digital India Corporation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The broad objective of the project is to provide right information at the right time and empower the farmers in taking informed decisions to enhance their livelihood through the mobile-based agro advisory services in local dialects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project is being implemented in East Siang, West Siang, Upper Siang, Lower Siang, Siang, Leparada, Lower Dibang Valley, Namsai and Shi-Yomi districts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme was inaugurated by Nari EAC John Modi, m4agri-Arunachal Project PI Dr Saroj Kumar Pattanaaik, and Co-PI Dr LD Hatai.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the inauguration of the programme, the farmers were trained on &#8216;improved package of practices of rice cultivation&#8217;, &#8216;suitable mechanization possibilities&#8217;, &#8216;availability of machines&#8217;, and &#8216;benefit of custom hiring centre&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEREN, 12 Feb: A workshop on &#8216;Improved cultivation practice of rice&#8217; was held at Seren village in Lower Siang district recently under &#8216;Project Arik Abik Lunom&#8217;, a mobile-based agro advisory service in Arunachal Pradesh. Forty-seven farmers of the village participated in the programme, which was conducted by Pasighat-based College of Horticulture &amp; Forestry, in collaboration [&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-184128","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\/184128","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=184128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}