{"id":239608,"date":"2024-04-27T00:43:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T19:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=239608"},"modified":"2024-04-27T00:43:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T19:13:13","slug":"atari-director-advices-shgs-to-start-fpcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/04\/27\/atari-director-advices-shgs-to-start-fpcs\/","title":{"rendered":"ATARI director advices SHGs to start FPCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, 26 Apr:<\/strong> Assam&#8217;s Guwahati-based Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute (ATARI) Director Dr Kadirval Govindasamy advised self-help groups (SHG) to start farmer-producer companies (FPC) in the villages to maximise benefits and bypass middlemen in agricultural sales.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing farmers and members of SHGs during a farmer-scientist interaction programme at Motum village in East Siang district on Friday, Dr Govindasamy advised them to &#8220;maintain nutrition gardens to meet nutritional needs of your families,&#8221; and encouraged them to adopt sustainable food choices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pasighat-based College of Horticulture &amp; Forestry (CHF) Dean Dr BN Hazarika advised the farmers to adopt integrated farming system, while Guwahati-based ATARI principal scientist Dr Rajesh Kumar spoke on double cropping, specifically cultivation of toria after rice cultivation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr RC Shakywar from the CHF spoke on scientific cultivation of oyster mushrooms, while Dr P Debnath from the same institute spoke about utilising kitchen waste for home composting for maintaining soil health.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Principal scientist Dr SM Hussain and East Siang KVK scientists Drs Toge Riba, Th E Vida and Neeta Longjam spoke on pest and diseases management in horticultural crops, secondary agriculture, and poultry management.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, summer vegetable seeds were distributed among the participating farmers, numbering 72.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, 26 Apr: Assam&#8217;s Guwahati-based Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute (ATARI) Director Dr Kadirval Govindasamy advised self-help groups (SHG) to start farmer-producer companies (FPC) in the villages to maximise benefits and bypass middlemen in agricultural sales. Addressing farmers and members of SHGs during a farmer-scientist interaction programme at Motum village in East Siang district on [&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-239608","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\/239608","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=239608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}