{"id":195638,"date":"2022-07-17T01:47:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T20:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=195638"},"modified":"2022-07-17T01:47:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T20:17:19","slug":"health-benefits-of-small-millets-discussed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/07\/17\/health-benefits-of-small-millets-discussed\/","title":{"rendered":"Health benefits of small millets discussed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, 16 Jul:<\/strong> The College of Horticulture &amp; Forestry here in East Siang district, in collaboration with the Pasighat College of Agriculture and the Riga Farmers Association, conducted an awareness meeting on &#8216;Nutritional health benefits of small millets&#8217; at Riga village in Siang district on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Project investigator of the &#8216;Millet-NEH Project&#8217;, Dr Premaradhya N and AICRP Biocontrol Project assistant professor Dr Ajay Kumar explained the medicinal value of small millets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They also demonstrated improved farming techniques of finger millet and foxtail millet in hilly tracts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The organisers later distributed farming inputs to 50 farmers hailing from different villages of Riga circle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correspondent PASIGHAT, 16 Jul: The College of Horticulture &amp; Forestry here in East Siang district, in collaboration with the Pasighat College of Agriculture and the Riga Farmers Association, conducted an awareness meeting on &#8216;Nutritional health benefits of small millets&#8217; at Riga village in Siang district on Saturday. Project investigator of the &#8216;Millet-NEH Project&#8217;, Dr Premaradhya [&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-195638","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\/195638","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=195638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}