{"id":259901,"date":"2025-03-05T01:19:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T19:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=259901"},"modified":"2025-03-05T01:19:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T19:49:40","slug":"monbhai-thamoung-honoured-with-iari-innovative-farmer-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/monbhai-thamoung-honoured-with-iari-innovative-farmer-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Monbhai Thamoung honoured with IARI Innovative Farmer Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAMSAI, 4 Mar:<\/strong> Monbhai Thamoung, a young, educated, progressive farmer from Kaisu village in Namsai district was honoured with the &#8216;IARI-Innovative Farmer Award&#8217; during the Pusa Krishi Vigyan Mela, organised by the ICAR-IARI, New Delhi, recently, for his significant contribution in the field of agriculture and allied activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prestigious award was conferred on 25 farmers from across the country, among whom Thamoung was the only farmer selected from Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prior to this, he had been awarded the Innovative Farmer Award at the Regional Agriculture Fair-2025 held in January by the Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thamoung has developed a multi-species livestock- and poultry-based farming system, in collaboration with the Namsai KVK, on a limited land area of approximately 0.5 ha.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his farm, he has poultry birds, ducks, pigs, goats, and cattle, along with local paddy varieties, vegetables and fruits for household consumption.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Last year he was able to generate an overall net income of Rs 6,42,000 with a cost-benefit ratio of 2.8:1&#8221; the KVK informed in a release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAMSAI, 4 Mar: Monbhai Thamoung, a young, educated, progressive farmer from Kaisu village in Namsai district was honoured with the &#8216;IARI-Innovative Farmer Award&#8217; during the Pusa Krishi Vigyan Mela, organised by the ICAR-IARI, New Delhi, recently, for his significant contribution in the field of agriculture and allied activities. The prestigious award was conferred on 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-259901","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\/259901","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=259901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}