{"id":195150,"date":"2022-07-11T02:08:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T20:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=195150"},"modified":"2022-07-11T02:08:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T20:38:33","slug":"bjp-kishan-morcha-zonal-trg-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/07\/11\/bjp-kishan-morcha-zonal-trg-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP Kishan Morcha zonal trg begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Mein emphasises on &#8216;contract farming&#8217; in remote areas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, 10 Jul:<\/strong> The three-day second zonal training camp for the BJP&#8217;s Kishan Morcha office bearers and progressive farmers of eight northeastern states, hosted by the state unit of the Kishan Morcha, began at the College of Horticulture &amp; Forestry here in East Siang district on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme is aimed at making the Kishan Morcha office bearers and progressive farmers aware of modern agriculture technologies and agro-climatic conditions, besides the farmers&#8217; welfare schemes initiated by the central government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the inaugural function, Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein urged the participants to &#8220;learn technical know-how of the agriculture and allied activities and help rural farmers to avail the technologies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also stressed on initiating &#8220;contract farming&#8221; in the remote areas, saying that &#8220;the rough terrain in the remote areas should be covered under this system of shared farming for more economic gain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DCM also highlighted the central and the state governments&#8217; initiatives for water conservation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Agriculture Minister Tage Taki in his address said that the state government is according priority to the farming sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There is a need to exchange farming knowledge among farmers of the region to develop the northeastern region as a hub of spice production,&#8221; Taki said, and encouraged the farmers to &#8220;take more interest in vegetable and spices production.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also urged the Kishan Morcha workers to help the farmers in this regard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Health Minister Alo Libang asked the farmers to &#8220;go organic to get rid of cancer and other ailments caused by chemical intoxication,&#8221; while state BJP president Biyuram Wahge spoke on &#8220;self-reliance through farming of edible crops, vegetables and spices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among others, MLAs Kaling Moyong and Chau Zingu Namchoom and a host of state BJP leaders attended the inaugural programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mein emphasises on &#8216;contract farming&#8217; in remote areas Correspondent PASIGHAT, 10 Jul: The three-day second zonal training camp for the BJP&#8217;s Kishan Morcha office bearers and progressive farmers of eight northeastern states, hosted by the state unit of the Kishan Morcha, began at the College of Horticulture &amp; Forestry here in East Siang district on [&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-195150","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\/195150","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=195150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}