{"id":24142,"date":"2018-04-01T01:19:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T19:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=24142"},"modified":"2018-04-01T01:19:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T19:49:40","slug":"organic-inputs-distributed-to-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/04\/01\/organic-inputs-distributed-to-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Organic inputs distributed to farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BASAR, Mar 31<\/strong>: Forty-four farmers received organic inputs such as copper oxychloride, neem-based insecticides and knapsack sprayers during a training programme titled &#8216;Livelihood improvement of tribal farmers through technological empowerment and input support&#8217; organized under the Tribal Sub Plan at Nyigam village here in Lower Siang district on Saturday.<br \/>\nAgri-entomology scientist Dr Anup Chandra made the farmers aware of the importance of copper oxychloride in organic disease management, and the role of neem-based insecticide in insect pest management in rice, vegetables, and horticultural crops.<br \/>\nThe farmers were also made aware of the safety measures to be followed in spraying of pesticides, along with techniques of using the knapsack sprayer.<br \/>\nLectures were also delivered on application of the novel technology of shield bug (Gandhi puk) traps, the process and procedures of vermicomposting, and insect-pest management in the major crops of the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BASAR, Mar 31: Forty-four farmers received organic inputs such as copper oxychloride, neem-based insecticides and knapsack sprayers during a training programme titled &#8216;Livelihood improvement of tribal farmers through technological empowerment and input support&#8217; organized under the Tribal Sub Plan at Nyigam village here in Lower Siang district on Saturday. Agri-entomology scientist Dr Anup Chandra made [&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-24142","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\/24142","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=24142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}