{"id":279240,"date":"2026-03-10T00:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=279240"},"modified":"2026-03-10T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:34:13","slug":"awareness-prog-on-eco-friendly-agri-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/awareness-prog-on-eco-friendly-agri-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness prog on eco-friendly agri practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MAJULI, 9 Mar:<\/strong> An awareness programme on eco-friendly agricultural practices was organised among the farmers in Majuli (Assam), by Dirang (W\/Kameng)-based NRC on Yak, in collaboration with Almora-based VPKAS, Jorhat-based Assam Agricultural University, and Barapani (Meghalaya)-based ICAR-RC on NEH.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 50 farmers from different localities of Majuli benefitted from the knowledge imparted by the multidisciplinary experts from various institutes. The participants were also provided with biofertilisers AAU-Biogourd, Bio-Sona and Bio-Veer, developed by the Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the programme, Dr Rakesh Sharda from Ludhiana-based CIPHET advised the farmers to opt for farmer-friendly agri-engineering practices to preserve indigenous varieties of crops. Scientists from ICAR-NBPGR, New Delhi also recommended conserving local varieties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAJULI, 9 Mar: An awareness programme on eco-friendly agricultural practices was organised among the farmers in Majuli (Assam), by Dirang (W\/Kameng)-based NRC on Yak, in collaboration with Almora-based VPKAS, Jorhat-based Assam Agricultural University, and Barapani (Meghalaya)-based ICAR-RC on NEH. A total of 50 farmers from different localities of Majuli benefitted from the knowledge imparted by [&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-279240","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\/279240","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=279240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279254,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279240\/revisions\/279254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}