{"id":254170,"date":"2024-12-21T01:26:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T19:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=254170"},"modified":"2024-12-21T01:26:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T19:56:28","slug":"farmers-scientists-interaction-prog-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/farmers-scientists-interaction-prog-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers-scientists interaction prog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>JAMPANI, 20 Dec:<\/strong> Sixteen farmers and farmwomen, members of SHGs, and 29 final year BSc agriculture students participated in a farmers-scientists interaction programme organised here in East Siang district by Pasighat-based College of Horticulture Forestry (CHF) on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the programme, CHF Social Science Professor BRPhukan apprised the participants of the potential of buckwheat cultivation using improved technology for enhancing farmers&#8217; income and sustaining the farming system. He also highlighted natural and organic farming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">AICRN PI on Potential Crops Dr P Debnath and Drs AS Barman, Shibani Dhobal and Dinesh Kumar spoke on the benefits of potential crops and highlighted the importance of growing buckwheat in the face of climate change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">AICRN on Potential Crops nodal officer Dr SK Yadav also interacted with the farmers and the students online and encouraged the farmers to grow buckwheat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Agricultural inputs like knapsack sprayers, biofertiliser, and spades were later distributed to the farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMPANI, 20 Dec: Sixteen farmers and farmwomen, members of SHGs, and 29 final year BSc agriculture students participated in a farmers-scientists interaction programme organised here in East Siang district by Pasighat-based College of Horticulture Forestry (CHF) on Thursday. During the programme, CHF Social Science Professor BRPhukan apprised the participants of the potential of buckwheat cultivation [&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-254170","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\/254170","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=254170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}