{"id":215848,"date":"2023-05-07T01:01:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T19:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=215848"},"modified":"2023-05-07T01:01:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T19:31:45","slug":"states-delegates-go-on-oil-palm-study-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/05\/07\/states-delegates-go-on-oil-palm-study-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"State&#8217;s delegates go on oil palm study tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 6 May:<\/strong> A delegation from Arunachal Pradesh, led by Agriculture Minister Tage Taki, went on a study tour to Indonesia and Malaysia recently to learn about oil palm production.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Indonesia, the team visited PT SOCFIN, Indonesia (SOCFINDO), a leading oil palm and rubber plantation company and a role model for plantation development in the archipelago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;At Sofindo, the team visited tissue culture and DNA laboratory and seed production centre,&#8221; Agriculture Commissioner Bidol Tayeng informed in a press release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Further, the team was acquainted with nursery management, oil palm harvesting process, identifying immature palm, and best cultivation practices like planting, manuring and replanting, composting, etc,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The team also visited the palm oil mill of PT SOCFINDO in Kebun Bangun Bandar to learn about the oil extraction process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The delegates also visited the seed production centre of the FGV Agri Services SDN BHD, planting material unit, TUN RAZAK Agriculture Research Centre 26400 Bandar Jengka, Pahang, Malaysia,&#8221; the release stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides Tayeng, the minister was accompanied by Agriculture Director Anong Lego, officials from the 3F Oil Palm Company, and a few farmers who have taken the lead role in oil palm plantation in Arunachal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The team also visited the state-of-the-art seed production centres and nurseries in Indonesia and Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indonesia is the largest oil palm growing country in the world, followed by Malaysia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 6 May: A delegation from Arunachal Pradesh, led by Agriculture Minister Tage Taki, went on a study tour to Indonesia and Malaysia recently to learn about oil palm production. In Indonesia, the team visited PT SOCFIN, Indonesia (SOCFINDO), a leading oil palm and rubber plantation company and a role model for plantation development in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-215848","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\/215848","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=215848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}