{"id":255740,"date":"2025-01-25T00:05:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=255740"},"modified":"2025-01-25T00:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:35:44","slug":"training-prog-on-scientific-buckwheat-cultivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/training-prog-on-scientific-buckwheat-cultivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Training prog on scientific buckwheat cultivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, 24 Jan:<\/strong> A five-day training programme on scientific cultivation of buckwheat commenced at the College of Horticulture &amp; Forestry (CHF) here in East Siang district on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme is being organised by the CHF under the NEH\/TSP component of the All India Coordinated Research Network on Potential Crops (AICRN on Potential Crops).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 47 farmers and farmwomen, members of SHGs of the district, and students of final year BSc agriculture are participating in the programme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the inaugural programme, CHF DeanProf BN Hazarika and its Social Science Professor BR Phukan enlightened the participants about the importance buckwheat for enhancing farmers&#8217; income and ensuring sustainability of the farming system. They also highlighted the use of natural and organic farm produces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Dr G Chand, Prof AS Barman, Dinesh Kumar, and AICRN on Potential Crops PI Prof Dr P Debnath spoke on the benefits of potential crops and highlighted the importance of buckwheat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Rajib Das spoke on quality seed production, with special emphasis on honeybee rearing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi-based AICRN on Potential Crops nodal officer Dr SK Yadav interacted with the farmers and the students online, and encouraged the farmers to grow buckwheat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A good number of agricultural inputs like knapsack sprayers, biofertiliser and spades were distributed among the farmers and the farmwomen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, 24 Jan: A five-day training programme on scientific cultivation of buckwheat commenced at the College of Horticulture &amp; Forestry (CHF) here in East Siang district on Friday. The programme is being organised by the CHF under the NEH\/TSP component of the All India Coordinated Research Network on Potential Crops (AICRN on Potential Crops). A [&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-255740","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\/255740","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=255740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}