{"id":221388,"date":"2023-07-29T01:15:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T19:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=221388"},"modified":"2023-07-29T01:15:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T19:45:47","slug":"awareness-prog-on-medicinal-aromatic-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/07\/29\/awareness-prog-on-medicinal-aromatic-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness prog on medicinal, aromatic plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, 28 Jul:<\/strong> An awareness programme on &#8216;good agricultural and collection practices of medicinal and aromatic plants&#8217; was conducted by the All India Coordinated Research Project on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants &amp; Betelvine (AICRP on MAP&amp;B) at the College of Agriculture (CoA) here in East Siang district on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thirty participants, consisting of farmers and FPO members, attended the programme, during which they also received inputs like knapsack sprayers and vermicompost.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the programme, experts from the AICRP on MAP&amp;B and the CoA delivered lectures and provided hands-on training on different aspects of cultivating and utilising medicinal and aromatic plants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CoA Assistant Professor Dr Nancy Lego spoke about &#8220;good collection practices of MAPs,&#8221; while Dr NY Chanu spoke about integrated pest management of MAPs, and Dr Helen Soibam dwelt on the production technology of MAPs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ICAR-DMAPR Director Dr Manish Das spoke about scientific cultivation practices of some of the economically important MAPs suited for cultivation in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He highlighted the cost-benefit ratio for growing MAPs, emphasising the economic benefits that can be reaped from their cultivation. He also emphasised on &#8220;exploring indigenous medicinal plants and coming up with commercial cultivation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, 28 Jul: An awareness programme on &#8216;good agricultural and collection practices of medicinal and aromatic plants&#8217; was conducted by the All India Coordinated Research Project on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants &amp; Betelvine (AICRP on MAP&amp;B) at the College of Agriculture (CoA) here in East Siang district on Friday. Thirty participants, consisting of farmers and [&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-221388","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\/221388","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=221388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}