{"id":231795,"date":"2023-12-30T00:14:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T18:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=231795"},"modified":"2023-12-30T00:14:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T18:44:33","slug":"awareness-progs-on-crop-diversification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/12\/30\/awareness-progs-on-crop-diversification\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness progs on crop diversification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PAMPOLI, 29 Dec:<\/strong> The East Kameng KVK conducted two awareness programmes on crop diversification for rural farmers at Wessang village and at the KVK campus here on 26 December and from 27-29 December, respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme was aimed at creating awareness about the importance and role of crop diversification, besides sustainable and profitable agriculture practices, the KVK informed in a release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the farmers, KVK agronomy scientist Dr WP Devi spoke on &#8220;concept, types, approaches and benefits of crop diversification in mitigating various challenges faced in farming required for a lucrative and climate resilient agriculture to ensure food and nutritional security,&#8221; the release said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Plant protection specialist Dr PP Tripathi apprised the farmers of scientific beekeeping, besides &#8220;the benefits of reaping higher production of crops with beekeeping, apart from providing extra income from negligible input,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soil science expert AK Pandey informed the farmers about &#8220;soil fertility and management through cropping system in particular reference to the area,&#8221; while home science expert H Ganga spoke on value addition to a few important fruits and vegetables of the district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sixty-three farmers, representing 10 SHGs, benefitted from the programme, the KVK said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAMPOLI, 29 Dec: The East Kameng KVK conducted two awareness programmes on crop diversification for rural farmers at Wessang village and at the KVK campus here on 26 December and from 27-29 December, respectively. The programme was aimed at creating awareness about the importance and role of crop diversification, besides sustainable and profitable agriculture practices, [&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-231795","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\/231795","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=231795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}