{"id":212775,"date":"2023-03-14T00:52:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=212775"},"modified":"2023-03-14T00:52:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T19:22:00","slug":"training-prog-on-ipm-advisory-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/03\/14\/training-prog-on-ipm-advisory-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Training prog on &#8216;IPM advisory&#8217; held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>REGI\/PAGI, 13 Mar:<\/strong> Fifty-four farmers of Regi village and 52 farmers of Pagi village, both in Leparada district, participated in a two-day &#8216;awareness-cum-training programme on mobile-based IPM advisory for vegetable crops and citrus&#8217;, organised at the two villages from 12-13 March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the programmes, Pasighat (East Siang)-based College of Horticulture &amp; Forestry&#8217;s Social Science Head Dr Lakshmi Dhar Hatai apprised the participants of the importance of mobile-based agro-advisory information in terms of pest management, while East Siang KVK plant protection scientist Dr Toge Riba emphasised on &#8220;location-specific IPM package and practices for horticultural crops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leparada Agriculture Development Officer Bippi Karbak highlighted &#8220;the government&#8217;s agriculture schemes, PMKSY and RKVY, for reaping benefits by the farming community of Leparada district.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leparada Horticulture Development Officer Le Khandu Thongdok spoke about &#8220;horti-based self-reliant farming to empower the farmers of Basar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also emphasised on &#8220;the contribution of IPM practices to increase farm productivity and food availability by reducing pre- and post-harvest losses of horticultural crops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Agro associate Vijay Saroh, field manager Yasmi Ratan, and field coordinator Kari Riba imparted hands-on training to the farmers, using the M4Agri mobile app and\u00a0 the farmers&#8217;-friendly Umang app in the villages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REGI\/PAGI, 13 Mar: Fifty-four farmers of Regi village and 52 farmers of Pagi village, both in Leparada district, participated in a two-day &#8216;awareness-cum-training programme on mobile-based IPM advisory for vegetable crops and citrus&#8217;, organised at the two villages from 12-13 March. During the programmes, Pasighat (East Siang)-based College of Horticulture &amp; Forestry&#8217;s Social Science Head [&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-212775","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\/212775","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=212775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}