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PASIGHAT, 14 Mar:<\/strong> The College of Horticulture & Forestry (CHF) has organized a “workshop on importance of cultivation of potential crops under foothill of Arunachal Pradesh-cum-input distribution under NEH and TSP component” here in East Siang district on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Seventy five buckwheat and other potential crops growing farmers and traders of the district benefitted from the workshop.<\/p>\n Speaking on the occasion, MLA Kaling Moyong urged the farmers to gain knowledge about health benefit of potential crops and to adopt the scientific methods of farming.<\/p>\n Bharatiya Kishan Morcha state president Dunggali Libang, in his address, asked the farmers to adopt scientific cultivation and to add potential crops in daily diet for health benefit.<\/p>\n The National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resource’s potential crop network coordinator Dr. Hanuman Lal Raiger highlighted the research achievements in releasing improved varieties of buckwheat.<\/p>\n He said, “Buckwheat is one of the very nutritious crops which can be grown in zero budget in Arunachal Pradesh for more return to the growers.”<\/p>\n Dr. Raiger interacted with the buckwheat growing farmers of Namshing, Runne, Takilalung and Jampani village, and assured them of all support.<\/p>\n He also visited the experimental field of Faba bean and other potential crops at the CHF.<\/p>\n Principal investigator prof. P Debnath highlighted the superiority of buckwheat over other major cereal crops such as rice, wheat, maize, etc, in terms of nutrients and nutraceutical properties.<\/p>\n Resource persons Dr. L D Hatai,\u00a0 Dr. R C Shakywar, Dr. Rajib Das, Dr. Ajai Kr Math and Dr. Tasoo Yatiung spoke on marketing strategies, diseases and pest, seed production and processing of buckwheat and faba bean.<\/p>\n Among others, prof. SK Bandhopadhya, CHF dean prof. B N Hazarika and CoA dean Dr. A K Tripathi also spoke.<\/p>\n A good number of different agricultural inputs like certified buckwheat seed, knapsack sprayers, spade, vermibeds, vermicompost, and biopesticies\u00a0 were distributed among the farmers\u00a0 during the\u00a0 workshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PASIGHAT, 14 Mar: The College of Horticulture & Forestry (CHF) has organized a “workshop on importance of cultivation of potential crops under foothill of Arunachal Pradesh-cum-input distribution under NEH and TSP component” here in East Siang district on Tuesday. Seventy five buckwheat and other potential crops growing farmers and traders of the district benefitted from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-212829","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\/212829","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=212829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}