{"id":228766,"date":"2023-11-19T01:33:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T20:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=228766"},"modified":"2023-11-19T01:34:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T20:04:37","slug":"farmer-field-day-organised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/farmer-field-day-organised\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer field day organised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, 18 Nov:<\/strong> The College of Agriculture (CoA) here in East Siang district organised a &#8216;Farmer field day on improved varieties of finger millet&#8217; at Mikong village in Ruksin on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme was aimed at encouraging the farmers to cultivate improved millet varieties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CoA Dean Dr AK Tripathi and Assistant Professor Dr Premaradhya encouraged the farmers to adopt millet cultivation for commercial purposes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The organisers honoured Taker Panyang, of Mikong village, for taking up finger millet (variety-GPU-67) cultivation in three acres of land, replacing paddy cultivation, thereby inspiring other farmers of the area to grow millet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Forty farmers, including 25 women, from different villages in Ruksin and Bilat circles participated in the programme, which was sponsored by Hyderabad (Telangana)-based Indian Institute of Millets Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correspondent PASIGHAT, 18 Nov: The College of Agriculture (CoA) here in East Siang district organised a &#8216;Farmer field day on improved varieties of finger millet&#8217; at Mikong village in Ruksin on Friday. The programme was aimed at encouraging the farmers to cultivate improved millet varieties. CoA Dean Dr AK Tripathi and Assistant Professor Dr Premaradhya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-228766","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\/228766","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=228766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}