{"id":206598,"date":"2022-12-09T00:23:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T18:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=206598"},"modified":"2022-12-09T00:23:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T18:53:36","slug":"rubber-board-sets-target-of-2-lakh-hectares-land-for-cultivation-in-ne-by-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/12\/09\/rubber-board-sets-target-of-2-lakh-hectares-land-for-cultivation-in-ne-by-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubber Board sets target of 2 lakh hectares land for cultivation in NE by 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>AGARTALA, 8 Dec:<\/strong> The Rubber Board has set a target of 2 lakh hectares of rubber cultivation in the Northeastern states by 2025 to increase production, a senior official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At present, seven states of the region together produce around 2 lakh mt of rubber annually and Tripura tops with one lakh mt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have launched a plan, NE Mitra, to increase rubber cultivation and rubber production in the seven states of the Northeast. Under the plan, 2 lakh hectares of land will be brought under rubber cultivation in the region by 2025,&#8221; Rubber Board Chairman Sawar Dhanania said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was found that except Sikkim, all other NE states &#8211; Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura &#8211; are agro-climatically suitable for raising rubber plantations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tripura is the considered second rubber capital of the country after Kerala. There are 1.15 lakh rubber growers in the Northeastern state where the population is only 40 lakhs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhanania said that, despite the Covid pandemic, Tripura has made significant progress in rubber cultivation. Rubber plantation was done in 2,374 hectares in 2021 and 8,400 hectares in 2022. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AGARTALA, 8 Dec: The Rubber Board has set a target of 2 lakh hectares of rubber cultivation in the Northeastern states by 2025 to increase production, a senior official said. At present, seven states of the region together produce around 2 lakh mt of rubber annually and Tripura tops with one lakh mt. &#8220;We have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-206598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206598","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=206598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}