{"id":51542,"date":"2018-11-12T00:06:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T18:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=51542"},"modified":"2018-11-12T00:06:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T18:36:40","slug":"trg-in-aromatic-plant-cultivation-imparted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/11\/12\/trg-in-aromatic-plant-cultivation-imparted\/","title":{"rendered":"Trg in aromatic plant cultivation imparted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAHARLAGUN, Nov 11:<\/strong> Farmers, villagers and beneficiaries from different parts of the state participated in a training programme on &#8216;cultivation and processing of aromatic plants&#8217; at the CSIR-North East Institute of Science &amp; Technology&#8217;s (CSIR-NEIST) branch here on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe programme was conducted by the Itanagar branch of the Jorhat (Assam)-based CSIR-NEIST, under the CSIR&#8217;s &#8216;Aroma Mission&#8217;.<br \/>\nHorticulture Minister Dr Mohesh Chai, who inaugurated the programme, also inaugurated the essential oil distillation unit (500 kg capacity\/batch) installed in the institute premises. The minister advised the farmers to take advantage of the low-cost unit which will help in extracting citronella and lemongrass essence.<br \/>\nChief Information Commissioner Joram Begi, who also attended the programme, suggested to the CSIR-NEIST to address issues such as flood, earthquake, conservation of biodiversity, etc, faced by the people of the Northeast.<br \/>\nArunachal Pradesh State Medicinal Plant Board CEO T Gapak provided information about the medicinal plants available in the state, while bioscience professor Utpal Borah from IIT Guwahati delivered a lecture on conservation of biodiversity and organic farming, and senior scientist Dr SP Saikia spoke about the Aroma Mission.<br \/>\nDuring the technical session, scientist Dr Mohal Lal and technical officer Dr BC Baruah trained the participants in cultivation of aromatic plants as well as mushrooms.<br \/>\nCSIR-NEIST Director (in-charge) Dr P Sengupta also spoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAHARLAGUN, Nov 11: Farmers, villagers and beneficiaries from different parts of the state participated in a training programme on &#8216;cultivation and processing of aromatic plants&#8217; at the CSIR-North East Institute of Science &amp; Technology&#8217;s (CSIR-NEIST) branch here on Sunday. The programme was conducted by the Itanagar branch of the Jorhat (Assam)-based CSIR-NEIST, under the CSIR&#8217;s [&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-51542","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\/51542","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=51542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}