{"id":261382,"date":"2025-03-24T01:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T19:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=261382"},"modified":"2025-03-24T01:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T19:47:30","slug":"kvk-longding-takes-part-in-national-conference-cum-farmers-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/kvk-longding-takes-part-in-national-conference-cum-farmers-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"KVK Longding takes part in national conference-cum-farmers&#8217; expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LONGDING, 23 Mar:<\/strong> A team of the Longding KVK, led by its Chief Technical Officer (Agronomy) A Kirankumar Singh, participated in a two-day national conference on &#8216;Millets and forgotten foods: Reviving traditions for nutritional security and ecological sustainability in agriculture&#8217;, along with a farmers&#8217; expo, organised at the College of Agriculture (CoA) in Pasighat in East Siang district from 21-22 March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the expo, the Longding KVK, among other things, displayed local germplasms of foxtail millets, models of low-cost polyhouse, agri-shed nets, and types of millets found in Longding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The millet germplasms were the centre of attraction for the farmers, who asked for the seeds for cultivation in their respective areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the farmers-scientists interaction programme, Singh highlighted the different millets suitable for West Siang, Shi-Yomi, East Siang, Siang, Lower Siang, Upper Siang, Tirap, Changlang, Anjaw and Longding districts, and the methods of its cultivation for successful production.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Basar (Leparada)-based ICAR AP Centre&#8217;s stall was adjudged the &#8216;best exhibition stall&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three 3 KVKs participated in the millet farmers&#8217; expo,under the banner of the ICAR AP Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGDING, 23 Mar: A team of the Longding KVK, led by its Chief Technical Officer (Agronomy) A Kirankumar Singh, participated in a two-day national conference on &#8216;Millets and forgotten foods: Reviving traditions for nutritional security and ecological sustainability in agriculture&#8217;, along with a farmers&#8217; expo, organised at the College of Agriculture (CoA) in Pasighat in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-261382","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\/261382","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=261382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}