{"id":277979,"date":"2026-02-13T00:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=277979"},"modified":"2026-02-13T00:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:49:21","slug":"meeting-on-development-of-agriculture-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/meeting-on-development-of-agriculture-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting on development of agriculture held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAMSAI, 12 Feb:<\/strong> Experts and stakeholders charted a course of action for enhancing the agricultural situation and practices in Namsai district during a Scientific Advisory Committee meeting held here on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the programme, subject matter specialists from various disciplines presented their annual progress reports, showcasing major achievements in technology testing, demonstration, farmers&#8217; trainings and extension activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The annual action plan for Namsai district for 2026-27, focusing on crop management, income enhancement, and climate resilient technologies were also presented for discussion among the stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Key suggestions offered during the meeting included increased focus on interventions suitable to the changing climate, development of value chain and entrepreneurship, development of a farmer friendly technology booklet, including technologies which have been tested and found promising in the district for distribution to state departments and farmers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Identification of pressing issues in agriculture and testing of location-suitable solutions and their propagation in a convergence mode, along with preservation of indigenous varieties were some of the proposals arrived at after thorough discussion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting was chaired by ATARI Guwahati Director Dr G Kadirvel, and was attended by Namsai Deputy Commissioner CR Khampa, and ICAR AP Centre Head Dr Doni Jini.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting was attended also by NABARD AGM Kamal Roy, officials and representatives of agriculture, horticulture, veterinary, fishery, and women and child development departments, among others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAMSAI, 12 Feb: Experts and stakeholders charted a course of action for enhancing the agricultural situation and practices in Namsai district during a Scientific Advisory Committee meeting held here on Thursday. During the programme, subject matter specialists from various disciplines presented their annual progress reports, showcasing major achievements in technology testing, demonstration, farmers&#8217; trainings and [&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-277979","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\/277979","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=277979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277980,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277979\/revisions\/277980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}