{"id":250128,"date":"2024-10-09T00:22:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=250128"},"modified":"2024-10-09T00:22:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T18:52:08","slug":"nerist-conducts-training-prog-for-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/10\/09\/nerist-conducts-training-prog-for-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"NERIST conducts training prog for farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NIRJULI, 8 Oct:<\/strong> The agricultural engineering department of the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), in collaboration with the Longding District Agriculture Officer (DAO), conducted a training programme for farmers in Longding on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 35 active farmers participated in the programme, which was sponsored by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) through the AICRP on ESAAS, NERIST Centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme was aimed at establishing connections between farmers, research institutes and state government officials. Its primary focus was to showcase various improved technologies, including women-friendly tools and equipment, designed to reduce labour and increase farmers&#8217; incomes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the participants, Prof KN Dewangan from the agricultural engineering department of the NERIST emphasised the importance of adopting appropriate technology with the right knowledge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">JPO Surya Chhetry presented a lecture through an audiovisual medium on ergonomically improved hand tools and equipment tailored for hilly regions. He also demonstrated several tools and equipment during the programme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other resource persons of the programme were DAO Monu Ngurang, and ADOs Naiphu Wangsu and Tokmem Siram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIRJULI, 8 Oct: The agricultural engineering department of the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), in collaboration with the Longding District Agriculture Officer (DAO), conducted a training programme for farmers in Longding on Tuesday. A total of 35 active farmers participated in the programme, which was sponsored by the Indian Council of [&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-250128","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\/250128","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=250128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}