{"id":76760,"date":"2019-08-25T01:35:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T20:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=76760"},"modified":"2019-08-25T01:35:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T20:05:52","slug":"min-asks-agriculture-officers-to-keep-govt-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/08\/25\/min-asks-agriculture-officers-to-keep-govt-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"Min asks agriculture officers to keep govt updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAHARLAGUN, Aug 24:<\/strong> Agriculture Minister Tage Taki advised the officers of the agriculture department to keep the state government and the policymakers &#8220;updated on the ground reality, so that policies beneficial for the farming community of the state can be devised by the government well in advance.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe minister was addressing a meeting with the department&#8217;s officers here on Saturday to evaluate the progress and achievements under various state- and centrally-sponsored schemes across the state.<br \/>\nHe emphasized on formulating district-specific projects to be submitted to the government &#8220;as there is limited time left to double the farmers&#8217; income by 2022.&#8221;<br \/>\nAgriculture Deputy Director (Development) TD Neckom highlighted critical issues like infrastructural needs of newly-created districts, dilapidated condition of residential and non-residential buildings, manpower shortage, etc, and urged the minister and the agriculture secretary to raise these issues with the state government.<br \/>\nAgriculture Secretary Bidol Tayeng advised the officers to be proactive and implement the schemes on time, as per the guidelines, to accomplish the mission of doubling the farmers&#8217; income by 2022. He also asked the department to work hard to contribute more to the national and the state GDPs through the agriculture sector.<br \/>\nDDOs and agriculture officers from the districts made PowerPoint presentations on the physical and financial achievements made in their districts under various schemes implemented during 2017-18 to 2018-19. They also informed the minister and the secretary about district-specific issues and constraints.<br \/>\nAgriculture Director Anong Lego urged the officers to complete the implementation of various schemes &#8220;as early as possible, so that additional fund can be obtained from the state and central governments.&#8221;<br \/>\nEarlier, the minister and the secretary along with senior officers of the department visited the state bio-control laboratory, the state seed testing laboratory, and the state soil testing laboratory at the agriculture directorate complex here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAHARLAGUN, Aug 24: Agriculture Minister Tage Taki advised the officers of the agriculture department to keep the state government and the policymakers &#8220;updated on the ground reality, so that policies beneficial for the farming community of the state can be devised by the government well in advance.&#8221; The minister was addressing a meeting with the [&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-76760","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\/76760","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=76760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}