{"id":76891,"date":"2019-08-26T01:18:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T19:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=76891"},"modified":"2019-08-26T01:18:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T19:48:41","slug":"tea-industry-will-encourage-youths-to-become-self-employed-sona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/08\/26\/tea-industry-will-encourage-youths-to-become-self-employed-sona\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea industry will encourage youths to become self-employed: Sona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Aug 25:<\/strong> Legislative Assembly Speaker PD Sona on Sunday advocated involving more local youths in the tea industry in order to create self-employment avenues and boost the state&#8217;s economy.<br \/>\nAttending the launch of Premium Teas, manufactured and marketed by the Arunachal Hornbill Brother Products, at a city hotel here, Sona said, &#8220;It is an encouragement to the younger generation who do not wait for or want government services.&#8221;<br \/>\nStressing on promotion of tea products, the speaker also said the people associated with tea production must have skill and knowledge.<br \/>\n&#8220;Promotion of such tea brands will also bring good name for the state,&#8221; Sona said, and urged the promoter of Premium Teas, former MLA Techi Hemu, to promote the venture with zeal as &#8220;it would inspire the local youths to be involved in tea production for sustainable development.&#8221;<br \/>\nIndustries Minister Tumke Bagra, who along with Agriculture Minister Tage Taki was also present at the launch, asked the promoter to &#8220;maintain the quality of products to capture the market in the state.&#8221;<br \/>\nTaki in his address said several tea gardens have come up in the state &#8220;and thousands of people are associated with the tea industry, right from cultivation to packaging and marketing.&#8221;<br \/>\nPakke-Kessang MLA Biyuram Wahge expressed hope that the involvement of Hemu in the tea industry would &#8220;encourage and inspire more youths of the state to get involved in tea cultivation.&#8221;<br \/>\nHemu gave an overview of several tea brands, besides speaking on quality and the packaging process.<br \/>\nHe said the foothills of Arunachal are suitable for tea cultivation, and expressed hope that the Premium Teas brand would &#8220;earn name and fame not only in our state but also in other parts of the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Aug 25: Legislative Assembly Speaker PD Sona on Sunday advocated involving more local youths in the tea industry in order to create self-employment avenues and boost the state&#8217;s economy. Attending the launch of Premium Teas, manufactured and marketed by the Arunachal Hornbill Brother Products, at a city hotel here, Sona said, &#8220;It is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76891","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=76891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}