{"id":53841,"date":"2018-12-07T01:07:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=53841"},"modified":"2018-12-07T01:07:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:37:45","slug":"soil-health-day-observed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/12\/07\/soil-health-day-observed\/","title":{"rendered":"Soil Health Day observed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SALARI, Dec 6:<\/strong> World Soil Health Day was jointly observed by the West Kameng Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) and Dirang-based NRC on Yak (NRCY) with a programme at the farmers&#8217; training centre here on Wednesday.<br \/>\nDuring the programme, 40 participants, including farmers, were educated on the appropriate method of soil sample collection, and were shown a demonstration by a team of experts on obtaining appropriate results from the laboratory.<br \/>\nSoil health cards were later distributed to the farmers, and their feedback taken. Agricultural tools were also distributed to the farmers by the district&#8217;s Agriculture Deputy Director (Training) SK Srivastava.<br \/>\nKVK Head Dr ND Singh apprised the farmers of the importance of soil testing and soil health card, while NRCY Director (in-charge) Dr Vijay Paul spoke on soil health improvement through judicious use of micro and macro nutrient supplements.<br \/>\nBesides farmwomen, officers from the KVK, and scientists also attended the programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALARI, Dec 6: World Soil Health Day was jointly observed by the West Kameng Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) and Dirang-based NRC on Yak (NRCY) with a programme at the farmers&#8217; training centre here on Wednesday. During the programme, 40 participants, including farmers, were educated on the appropriate method of soil sample collection, and were shown [&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-53841","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\/53841","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=53841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}