{"id":212145,"date":"2023-03-04T01:26:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T19:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=212145"},"modified":"2023-03-04T01:26:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T19:56:18","slug":"illegal-poppy-plantations-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/03\/04\/illegal-poppy-plantations-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal poppy plantations destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LAZU, 3 Mar:<\/strong> The Tirap district administration, with the help of the police and officials of the tax &amp; excise department, destroyed 27.5 acres of illegal poppy fields here in Tirap district on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SP Kardak Riba said that &#8220;the drive was carried out as some villagers are still found involved in illegal poppy cultivation, despite many awareness campaigns having been conducted earlier in Lazu circle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The SP further said that, apart from poppy plants, &#8220;more dangerous and highly addictive brown sugar and heroin are being produced, which will have a catastrophic effect on the society, especially on the younger generation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lazu EAC DK Thungdok, who led the team, informed that a series of awareness campaigns on the drug menace were conducted in Lazu area earlier, and that &#8220;the farming community of Lazu circle vehemently appealed to the government for alternative crops to replace opium cultivation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Pigs were distributed to some farmers and beneficiaries of Lazu village by the district administration from veterinary and animal husbandry department,&#8221; the EAC said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 40-member team included Lazu PS OC Sheychin Chena, Tax &amp; Excise Inspector Opang Apang, and other officials of the district administration, the police, and the tax &amp; excise department. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAZU, 3 Mar: The Tirap district administration, with the help of the police and officials of the tax &amp; excise department, destroyed 27.5 acres of illegal poppy fields here in Tirap district on Friday. SP Kardak Riba said that &#8220;the drive was carried out as some villagers are still found involved in illegal poppy cultivation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-212145","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\/212145","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=212145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}