{"id":277919,"date":"2026-02-12T00:25:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=277919"},"modified":"2026-02-12T00:25:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:55:51","slug":"capacity-building-prog-on-horticulture-concludes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/capacity-building-prog-on-horticulture-concludes\/","title":{"rendered":"Capacity-building prog. on horticulture concludes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, 11 Feb:<\/strong> A ten-day capacity-building training programme on the theme &#8220;Different Scientific Approaches for Strengthening Horticultural Crop Cultivation in East Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh&#8221; concluded at the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme was organised by the East Siang KVK and sponsored by the Central Institute of Horticulture (CIH), Medziphema, Nagaland, to enhance farmers&#8217; knowledge and skills through scientific and innovative horticultural practices suited to the agro-climatic conditions of East Siang district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the programme, lectures were delivered by faculty members and scientists from the East Siang KVK, the College of Horticulture and Forestry, and the College of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sessions covered various important topics, including potential exotic crops for East Siang, production and propagation technologies of horticultural crops, post-harvest management and value addition, advances in mushroom cultivation, crop protection strategies, nutrient management and natural farming, protected cultivation and nursery management, floriculture and medicinal plant cultivation, and horti-based integrated farming systems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Interactive sessions and practical demonstrations were also conducted during the ten-day programme, which was supervised by principal scientist and head of East Siang KVK, Dr. Brijendra Singh Rajawat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around 500 farmers, including farmwomen and rural youth from various villages, participated in the programme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Dean of the College of Agriculture (CoA) Dr. A.K Tripathi, Guwahati-based North Eastern regional director of the Extension Education Institute (EEI) Dr. Rajumoni Bordoloi, and EEI Senior scientist Dr. Chittaranjan Deka, among others, were present at the concluding ceremony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, 11 Feb: A ten-day capacity-building training programme on the theme &#8220;Different Scientific Approaches for Strengthening Horticultural Crop Cultivation in East Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh&#8221; concluded at the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) here on Wednesday. The programme was organised by the East Siang KVK and sponsored by the Central Institute of Horticulture (CIH), Medziphema, [&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-277919","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\/277919","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=277919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277920,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277919\/revisions\/277920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}