{"id":268677,"date":"2025-08-09T00:19:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=268677"},"modified":"2025-08-09T00:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:49:27","slug":"kvk-organizes-exposure-tour-for-farmers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/kvk-organizes-exposure-tour-for-farmers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"KVK organizes exposure tour for farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAMSAI, 8 Aug:<\/strong> The Namsai KVK organized an exposure-cum-training programme for 20 farmers from Krishnapur village in Namsai district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The farmers were taken to the farm of award-winning progressive farmer Lachit Thamoung of Jona IV village, where they learned about production and management technology of milky mushroom as well as round-the-year mushroom production technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thamoung, who has been instrumental in adopting milky mushroom production in the district, elucidated the casing technology of milky mushroom, which is an essential step towards successful milky mushroom production.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also demonstrated to the visiting farmers how to integrate vermicompost production using waste substrate material of mushroom production.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KVK Head Dr Utpal Barua interacted with the farmers and suggested integrating various components for sustainable income generation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KVK scientist Dr Madhusmita S Bora provided hands-on training on preparation of mushroom bags using sterilized paddy straw, seeding of spawn, bagging technique, and precautions to be followed to avoid contamination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another KVK scientist, Dr Shravani Sahani encouraged the farmers to use ICT-based information sources, such as Krishi Choupal, organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, and DD Kisan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NICRA SRF Nancy Munglang also interacted with the farmers regarding good farming practices for effective utilization of farm resources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The farmers were later provided with quality spawn material of milky mushrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAMSAI, 8 Aug: The Namsai KVK organized an exposure-cum-training programme for 20 farmers from Krishnapur village in Namsai district. The farmers were taken to the farm of award-winning progressive farmer Lachit Thamoung of Jona IV village, where they learned about production and management technology of milky mushroom as well as round-the-year mushroom production technology. Thamoung, [&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-268677","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\/268677","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=268677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}