{"id":268647,"date":"2025-08-09T00:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=268647"},"modified":"2025-08-09T00:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:38:14","slug":"capacity-building-prog-for-farmers-conducted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/capacity-building-prog-for-farmers-conducted\/","title":{"rendered":"Capacity building prog for farmers conducted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, 8 Aug:<\/strong> The East Siang Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) on Friday conducted a capacity building programme on &#8216;Improved production technology of potential fruit crops&#8217;, with focus on dragon fruit, avocado, jackfruit, and guava, here in East Siang district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme, organized on the occasion of the National Horticulture Day, aimed at promoting sustainable fruit cultivation and enhancing farmers&#8217;income in the district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">College of Horticulture &amp; Forestry (CHF) Dean Prof A Herojit Singh, KVK Head Dr Brijendra Singh Rajawat, Dr N Devachandra, Dr PK Nimbolkar and Dr V Bhargav from the CHF, and SDHO Oyin Tayeng were the resource persons of the programme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the programme, the potential of dragon fruit and avocado as emerging high-value crops in the region and the traditional importance of jackfruit and guava were highlighted. The farmers were provided with in-depth knowledge about scientific propagation and planting techniques, high-yielding and region-suitable varieties, integrated nutrient and water management, pest and disease management, post-harvest handling, marketing, and value addition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eight-eight participants from across the district werepresent during the programme. A total of 4,000 saplings, including avocado, were distributed to the participants by the KVK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, 8 Aug: The East Siang Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) on Friday conducted a capacity building programme on &#8216;Improved production technology of potential fruit crops&#8217;, with focus on dragon fruit, avocado, jackfruit, and guava, here in East Siang district. The programme, organized on the occasion of the National Horticulture Day, aimed at promoting sustainable fruit [&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-268647","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\/268647","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=268647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}