{"id":54330,"date":"2018-12-11T00:53:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T19:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=54330"},"modified":"2018-12-11T00:53:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T19:23:28","slug":"gaon-chalo-awareness-prog-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/12\/11\/gaon-chalo-awareness-prog-held\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gaon chalo&#8217; awareness prog held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>DAPORIJO, Dec 10:<\/strong> Hundreds of farmers from all over the district attended a &#8216;Gaon chalo awareness-cum-pre Rabi programme&#8217; organised by the Upper Subansiri District Farmers&#8217; Society (USDFS) in collaboration with the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) at Singhik Hall here on 8 December.<br \/>\nThe programme was aimed at encouraging the people from remote villages to not migrate to district headquarters Daporijo but create self-employment opportunities in the villages by engaging in farming activities.<br \/>\nDC Danish Ashraf advised the farmers to engage in cultivation for self-employment, and urged them to benefit from the soil health card scheme. He told the farmers to discuss suitable schemes for agriculture and allied activities during gram panchayat meetings.<br \/>\nKVK Head Nyape (Tomi) Bam urged the farmers to &#8220;change from subsistence farming to commercial farming&#8221; with the help of the KVK, and told them about the ill effects of inorganic chemicals on humans as well as on the soil.<br \/>\nAgronomy scientist Arvind Pratap urged the people to &#8220;create a signature crop for the district by taking advantage of its diverse climate.&#8221; Taksing circle, he said, is ideal for off-season crops.<br \/>\nUSDFS general secretary Totok Leriak Tamin and its chairman Porsu Tamin also spoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAPORIJO, Dec 10: Hundreds of farmers from all over the district attended a &#8216;Gaon chalo awareness-cum-pre Rabi programme&#8217; organised by the Upper Subansiri District Farmers&#8217; Society (USDFS) in collaboration with the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) at Singhik Hall here on 8 December. The programme was aimed at encouraging the people from remote villages to not [&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-54330","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\/54330","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=54330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}