{"id":253756,"date":"2024-12-13T01:58:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T20:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=253756"},"modified":"2024-12-13T01:59:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T20:29:26","slug":"regional-citrus-biodiversity-fair-draws-farmers-from-across-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/regional-citrus-biodiversity-fair-draws-farmers-from-across-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional Citrus Biodiversity Fair draws farmers from across state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, 12 Dec:<\/strong> More than 100 farmers from across the state took part in the Regional Citrus Biodiversity Fair, 2024, organised by the fruit science department of the College of Horticulture &amp; Forestry (CHF) here in East Siang district from 10-11 December.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme featured distribution of awards to progressive farmers, exhibition stalls, showcasing of citrus biodiversity by the farmers, bio inputs distribution, farmers-scientist interaction programme and farmers&#8217; field visit to Mebo village.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Dr Prakash Patil, project coordinator of the all-India coordinated research projects (fruits) under Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), highlighted the importance of citrus biodiversity conservation. Patil also encouraged the farmers to follow scientific practice for cultivation of fruit crops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CHF Dean Prof BN Hazarika highlighted the importance and richness of citrus biodiversity of the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme was organised under the project ICAR-AICRP on fruits, in collaboration with the Krishi Vigyan Kendra, CHF.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among others, ICAR Regional Centre for NEH Region Head from Basar (Leparada) Prof L Wangchu, Dr A Thirugnanavel from CCRI, Nagpur, heads of different KVKs and students attended the programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, 12 Dec: More than 100 farmers from across the state took part in the Regional Citrus Biodiversity Fair, 2024, organised by the fruit science department of the College of Horticulture &amp; Forestry (CHF) here in East Siang district from 10-11 December. The programme featured distribution of awards to progressive farmers, exhibition stalls, showcasing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-253756","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\/253756","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=253756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}