{"id":272402,"date":"2025-10-18T00:34:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=272402"},"modified":"2025-10-18T00:34:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:04:33","slug":"prog-on-scientific-cultivation-of-buckwheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/prog-on-scientific-cultivation-of-buckwheat\/","title":{"rendered":"Prog on scientific cultivation of buckwheat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LEDUM, 17 Oct:<\/strong> Forty-five local farmers, along with 53 BSc horticulture students of Pasighat-based College of Horticulture and Forestry (CHF), participated in a programme on &#8216;Scientific cultivation of buckwheat under foothills of Arunachal Pradesh&#8217;, organized by the CHF at Ledum village in East Siang district on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the programme, CHF Dean Prof A Herojit Singh delivered a talk on crops and sustainable soil health management for the hill farmers of Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr BR Phukan delivered a lecture on the importance of growing buckwheat in the foothills of Arunachal, and its pharmaceutical and health benefits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Students of the college demonstrated production of vermicompost and soil sampling methods, while Dr Dinesh Kumar spoke on the package of practices for buckwheat cultivation in Arunachal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Prof P Debnath, PI of the project, highlighted key points with regard to scientific cultivation of potential crops in Arunachal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twenty-five seed storage baskets and four vermicompost units were later distributed among the farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEDUM, 17 Oct: Forty-five local farmers, along with 53 BSc horticulture students of Pasighat-based College of Horticulture and Forestry (CHF), participated in a programme on &#8216;Scientific cultivation of buckwheat under foothills of Arunachal Pradesh&#8217;, organized by the CHF at Ledum village in East Siang district on Friday. During the programme, CHF Dean Prof A Herojit [&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-272402","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\/272402","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=272402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}