{"id":261984,"date":"2025-04-04T00:15:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=261984"},"modified":"2025-04-04T00:15:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:45:02","slug":"maize-seeds-distributed-to-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/maize-seeds-distributed-to-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Maize seeds distributed to farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAMSAI, 3 Apr:<\/strong> Ninety-five kgs of maize seeds were distributed to 18 farmers during a training programme on organic maize cultivation organised by the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) here on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the programme, agronomy specialist K Nithinkumar emphasised the importance of biofertilisers in organic farming practices, highlighting their role in improving soil health, reducing chemical fertiliser dependency, and enhancing nutrient availability for better crop yields.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The seeds were distributed among the farmers for on-farm testing trials to evaluate the performance of the improved maize variety (Megha Maize 1), developed by the ICAR research complex for NEH region, Umiam, Meghalaya.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to maize seeds, Nithinkumar provided biofertilisers to enhance native soil fertility and promote sustainable crop production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAMSAI, 3 Apr: Ninety-five kgs of maize seeds were distributed to 18 farmers during a training programme on organic maize cultivation organised by the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) here on Thursday. During the programme, agronomy specialist K Nithinkumar emphasised the importance of biofertilisers in organic farming practices, highlighting their role in improving soil health, reducing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-261984","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\/261984","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=261984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}