{"id":61004,"date":"2019-02-26T16:19:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T10:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=61004"},"modified":"2019-02-26T16:19:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T10:49:43","slug":"chf-hosts-arunachal-agri-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/02\/26\/chf-hosts-arunachal-agri-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"CHF hosts Arunachal Agri Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PASIGHAT, Feb 25:<\/strong> The College of Horticulture and Forestry (CHF) here in East Siang district is hosting a three-day &#8216;Arunachal Agri Expo&#8217;, themed &#8216;Boosting farm income through smart farming&#8217;, which got underway on Monday.<br \/>\nAddressing the inaugural function, Imphal (Manipur)-based Central Agriculture University Vice Chancellor Prof M Premjit Singh urged the farmers to adopt integrated farming to increase their productivity and income.<br \/>\nHe assured to extend all possible help from the university, in terms of knowledge and technical know-how, to the farmers of Arunachal Pradesh through its faculties and scientists.<br \/>\nThree progressive farmers from the state were facilitated on the occasion for their contribution in the field of agriculture.<br \/>\nADC T Borang said there is heavy import from and dependence on neighbouring states due to the shortage of agricultural, fisheries and poultry products in the state.<br \/>\n&#8220;The farmers of the state need to work harder to fill the shortage as well as increase their income to further improve their living standard,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThe ICAR&#8217;s Basar Centre Joint Director Dr H Kalita noted that Arunachal has a huge potential with its vast unutilized and underutilized land.<br \/>\n&#8220;Farmers can increase their income by reducing the inputs in production and adopting mechanization and new technologies,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, Feb 25: The College of Horticulture and Forestry (CHF) here in East Siang district is hosting a three-day &#8216;Arunachal Agri Expo&#8217;, themed &#8216;Boosting farm income through smart farming&#8217;, which got underway on Monday. Addressing the inaugural function, Imphal (Manipur)-based Central Agriculture University Vice Chancellor Prof M Premjit Singh urged the farmers to adopt integrated [&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-61004","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\/61004","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=61004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}