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NAMSAI, 7 Sep:<\/strong> Sixty-six farmers benefitted from a two-day programme on ‘Livelihood improvement of NEH farmers through livestock interventions,’ organised here by West Bengal-based ICAR-NDRI on 6 and 7 September, under the NDRI-NEH project component, in collaboration with the Namsai KVK.<\/p>\n KVK Head Dr Debasis Sasmal encouraged the farmers to “actively participate in integrated farming system, maybe livestock-cum-agriculture, fishery-cum-livestock, fishery-cum-horticulture, etc, to overcome the losses in a particular crop by other venture.”<\/p>\n He also stressed the need to “uplift the farmers of Namsai” through livestock-based farming, and motivated the farmers to “adopt scientific rearing of their livestock to make it a profitable business.”<\/p>\n ERS-NDRI principal scientist Dr Champak Bhakat highlighted the activities to empower the farmers through pig-based integrated farming, feeding practices, housing, vaccination, mortality issues, breeding strategies, etc,” and urged them to provide feedback in the future.<\/p>\n Another ERS-NDRI principal scientist Dr Karunakaran stressed on “reproductive management of pig and dairy cow, deworming, fodder production, etc,” while ERS-NDRI senior scientist Dr M Mondol spoke about scientific livestock farming issues.<\/p>\n Later, piglets, pig feed, mineral mix packets, essential veterinary medicines, goat feeders, training kits, etc, were distributed among the farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NAMSAI, 7 Sep: Sixty-six farmers benefitted from a two-day programme on ‘Livelihood improvement of NEH farmers through livestock interventions,’ organised here by West Bengal-based ICAR-NDRI on 6 and 7 September, under the NDRI-NEH project component, in collaboration with the Namsai KVK. KVK Head Dr Debasis Sasmal encouraged the farmers to “actively participate in integrated farming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-199966","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\/199966","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=199966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}