{"id":268552,"date":"2025-08-07T00:12:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=268552"},"modified":"2025-08-07T00:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:42:55","slug":"yak-centre-conducts-technology-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/yak-centre-conducts-technology-demonstration\/","title":{"rendered":"Yak Centre conducts technology demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TAWANG, 6 Aug:<\/strong>\u00a0 The Dirang-based ICAR-National Research Centre on Yak (NRC-Yak) conducted a technology demonstration-cum-awareness programme for the tribal yak herders at Chuna grazing ground, Mago on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ICAR-NRC on Yak principal scientist Dr. Dinamani Medhi educated the participants on value addition of yak products, vaccination and nutrient management, and adoption of semi-intensive yak rearing systems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Medhi also created awareness among the yak herders about major diseases in yak, including lumpy skin disease, foot and mouth disease, black quarter, hemorrhagic septicaemia, and parasitic infections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Inputs, including animal feeds and salts, tarpaulins and gumboots, solar lights, veterinary medicines etc. were also distributed to the yak herders by the NRC on Yak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Additionally, samples were also collected from the field for Single Nucleotide Polymorphism project, aimed at improving genetic research on yak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The event was organized by ICAR- NRC-Yak, Dirang, in collaboration with the department of animal husbandry and veterinary, Tawang, and the Indian army under the aegis of the Baisakhi Brigade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over 100 yak herders benefitted from the programme. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAWANG, 6 Aug:\u00a0 The Dirang-based ICAR-National Research Centre on Yak (NRC-Yak) conducted a technology demonstration-cum-awareness programme for the tribal yak herders at Chuna grazing ground, Mago on Wednesday. ICAR-NRC on Yak principal scientist Dr. Dinamani Medhi educated the participants on value addition of yak products, vaccination and nutrient management, and adoption of semi-intensive yak rearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-268552","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\/268552","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=268552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}