{"id":279241,"date":"2026-03-10T00:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=279241"},"modified":"2026-03-10T00:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:34:28","slug":"plf-gets-millets-value-addition-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/plf-gets-millets-value-addition-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"PLF gets millets value addition hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SANGTI, 9 Mar: T<\/strong>he Namdoling panchayat level federation (PLF) here in West Kameng district got its value addition hub, comprising items such as a refrigerator, dough kneading machine, mini mill machine, oven, gas chulha, etc, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project has been funded by Hyderabad (Telangana)-based Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR) under the AICRP on sorghum and small millets, spearheaded by Dirang-based Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture (CITH) Regional Station senior scientist Dr Pradeepkumara N and West Kameng KVK agronomist Pem Thinley.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on the occasion, Namdoling PLF president Dechen Paldon thanked all the institutions for providing the equipment to enhance livelihood opportunities and income enhancement through millet-based value addition activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Pradeepkumara emphasised on &#8220;production of millets in the region for raw materials for running the value addition centre in a long run under organic system,&#8221; the KVK informed in a release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ArSRLM BMM Mobi Ori spoke about formation of PLFs and how women SHGs can come together and transform the rural sector, while Lish ZPM Lobsang Trapke spoke on how women&#8217;s empowerment can uplift the rural economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANGTI, 9 Mar: The Namdoling panchayat level federation (PLF) here in West Kameng district got its value addition hub, comprising items such as a refrigerator, dough kneading machine, mini mill machine, oven, gas chulha, etc, on Monday. The project has been funded by Hyderabad (Telangana)-based Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR) under the AICRP on [&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-279241","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\/279241","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=279241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279255,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279241\/revisions\/279255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}