{"id":267598,"date":"2025-07-22T01:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=267598"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:34:06","slug":"dc-seeks-scientists-help-in-mitigating-hardships-of-drought-hit-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/dc-seeks-scientists-help-in-mitigating-hardships-of-drought-hit-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"DC seeks scientists&#8217; help in mitigating hardships of drought-hit farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Prafulla Kaman ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, 21 Jul:<\/strong> East Siang Deputy Commissioner Sonalika Jiwani has sought agriculture scientists&#8217; help in mitigating farmers&#8217; woes due to the prevailing drought-like situation in the district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DC urged the agriculture scientists at the College of Agriculture (CoA) to formulate a mitigation plan to ease the farmers&#8217; hardships caused by the prolonged dry-spell, affecting wet rice cultivation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This daily covered the news on unfavourable weather condition on its 11 July edition, highlighting the farmers&#8217; hardships. The report drew the attention of the East Siang deputy commissioner as well as the scientists at the CoA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DC has written to the state government, seeking compensatory measures for the affected farmers. She has also sought technical guidance on alternative farming to help the farmers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, Jiwani informed that she has submitted a report to the state government, apprising it of the prevailing situation and hardships faced by the farmers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When contacted, CoA Dean Prof Sanjay Swami said that the East Siang district administration has approached the scientists to prepare an action plan to help the affected farmers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The agriculture scientists suggested that the state government should facilitate cultivation of early-maturing paddy varieties and supply seeds of improved green gram and black gram as alternative crops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Prafulla Kaman ] PASIGHAT, 21 Jul: East Siang Deputy Commissioner Sonalika Jiwani has sought agriculture scientists&#8217; help in mitigating farmers&#8217; woes due to the prevailing drought-like situation in the district. The DC urged the agriculture scientists at the College of Agriculture (CoA) to formulate a mitigation plan to ease the farmers&#8217; hardships caused by [&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-267598","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\/267598","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=267598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}