{"id":212693,"date":"2023-03-13T00:49:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T19:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=212693"},"modified":"2023-03-13T00:49:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T19:19:04","slug":"training-prog-on-millets-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/03\/13\/training-prog-on-millets-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Training prog on millets held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ROING, 12 Mar:<\/strong> Forty-five farmers from nine villages of Lower Dibang Valley district participated in a training programme on &#8216;Millet as nutri-cereal&#8217;, organised by the RIWATCH near here, in collaboration with Pasighat (East Siang)-based College of Agriculture (CoA), recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the programme, CoA lecturer Dr Premaradhya, who is also the nodal officer for millet promotion in the Northeast, said that, &#8220;Compared to rice and other cereals, millet contains plenty of iron, zinc, folic acid<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">and high amount of vitamins, minerals and proteins,&#8221; and informed that &#8220;the kodo and the foxtail varieties of millet are grown in Arunachal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CoA distributed 2.5 kgs of millet seeds to each farmer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Research Institute of World&#8217;s Ancient Traditions, Cultures &amp; Heritage (RIWATCH) has adopted 150 farmers from 15 villages for immunity boosting, and this programme was a part of it,&#8221; the institute informed in a release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROING, 12 Mar: Forty-five farmers from nine villages of Lower Dibang Valley district participated in a training programme on &#8216;Millet as nutri-cereal&#8217;, organised by the RIWATCH near here, in collaboration with Pasighat (East Siang)-based College of Agriculture (CoA), recently. During the programme, CoA lecturer Dr Premaradhya, who is also the nodal officer for millet promotion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-212693","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\/212693","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=212693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}