{"id":202735,"date":"2022-10-15T01:38:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T20:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=202735"},"modified":"2022-10-15T01:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T20:08:19","slug":"trg-prog-on-orchidcultivation-underway-at-rgu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/10\/15\/trg-prog-on-orchidcultivation-underway-at-rgu\/","title":{"rendered":"Trg prog on orchid cultivation underway at RGU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RONO HILLS, 14 Oct:<\/strong> A weeklong &#8216;National hands-on training programme on orchid cultivation, micro propagation and clonal fidelity testing&#8217; began at Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) here on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme is being jointly organised by RGU&#8217;s botany department and Agartala (Tripura)-based National Institute of Technology, under the &#8216;synergistic training programme utilising the scientific and technological infrastructure&#8217; of the union science &amp; technology department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RGU Vice Chancellor Prof Saket Kushwaha in his inaugural address spoke about various aspects of &#8220;income generation by encouraging local entrepreneurs in the field of orchid cultivation using micro propagation techniques.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The VC also highlighted &#8220;the role of universities and researchers in disseminating knowledge of biotechnology among the people for entrepreneurial startups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RGU Pro-VC Prof Amitava Mitra dwelt on &#8220;economy generating potential from orchid-based entrepreneurial business in the state,&#8221; and Nagaland University&#8217;s Botany Professor Chitta Ranjan Deb spoke about the initiative taken by the central government in &#8220;facilitating biotech hub in Northeastern India.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also emphasised on the role of universities in empowering the local people in orchid cultivation to boost the economy of the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first day&#8217;s programme ended with a hands-on laboratory training conducted by RGU research scholars Dunyak Ado, Bengia Mamu, and Tadu Yaniya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RONO HILLS, 14 Oct: A weeklong &#8216;National hands-on training programme on orchid cultivation, micro propagation and clonal fidelity testing&#8217; began at Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) here on Friday. The programme is being jointly organised by RGU&#8217;s botany department and Agartala (Tripura)-based National Institute of Technology, under the &#8216;synergistic training programme utilising the scientific and technological [&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-202735","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\/202735","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=202735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}