{"id":190717,"date":"2022-05-12T02:37:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T21:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=190717"},"modified":"2022-05-12T02:37:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T21:07:50","slug":"awareness-on-millet-cultivation-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/05\/12\/awareness-on-millet-cultivation-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness on millet cultivation held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KHUPA, 11 May:<\/strong> KVK Anjaw has organized an awareness programme on millet cultivation for the farmers of the district here on Wednesday. The programme aimed &#8216;to bring back glory of millets&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the participants, Anjaw KVK head Dr. Santosh Kumar said,&#8221;Millet cultivation is an age-old practice in Arunachal Pradesh. However, the interest in millet cultivation is declining due to a lack of knowledge regarding the nutritional and medicinal value of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Highlighting the health benefits of millet, he said millets are considered &#8220;Nutri-cereals due to their high nutritional value and are known for several health benefits. Some health benefits are attributed to its polyphenol and dietary fibre contents,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Millets are climate-resilient and require less water, labour, soil nutrients,&#8221; the KVK head said and added that it has the potential to address climate change and food security especially, for hilly areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KVK Anjaw also introduced a new high yielding variety of finger millets, VL Madua 379 and 352 and distributed it to more than 15 farmers of the Hayuliang sub-division to celebrate the International Year of millets 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHUPA, 11 May: KVK Anjaw has organized an awareness programme on millet cultivation for the farmers of the district here on Wednesday. The programme aimed &#8216;to bring back glory of millets&#8217;. Addressing the participants, Anjaw KVK head Dr. Santosh Kumar said,&#8221;Millet cultivation is an age-old practice in Arunachal Pradesh. However, the interest in millet cultivation [&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-190717","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\/190717","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=190717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}