{"id":86323,"date":"2019-11-30T02:08:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T20:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=86323"},"modified":"2019-11-30T02:08:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T20:38:14","slug":"prog-on-plant-genetic-resources-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/11\/30\/prog-on-plant-genetic-resources-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Prog on plant genetic resources held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TAWANG, Nov 29:<\/strong> The Indian Council of Agriculture Research &#8211; National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resource (ICAR-NBPGR), in collaboration with the agriculture department and the Tawang KVK, organised a &#8216;Plant genetic resources awareness programme-cum-diversity fair&#8217; here on Friday.<br \/>\nInteracting with the farmers who attended the event, the NBGPR&#8217;s seed technology principal scientist, Dr Sushil Pandey, spoke about organic farming, preservation of traditional crops and seeds, food security, farmers&#8217; registration, gene bank, and doubling of farmers&#8217; income.<br \/>\n&#8220;Our purpose of visit is not only to give you awareness but also to know from you about your traditional way of agricultural activities,&#8221; said Dr Pandey.<br \/>\nNBPGR scientists, Drs Narendra Pawar and Arun Sharma, replied to queries raised by the farmers relating to crop production and how to increase crop quantity and quality.<br \/>\nThe farmers were later provided with agriculture toolkits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAWANG, Nov 29: The Indian Council of Agriculture Research &#8211; National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resource (ICAR-NBPGR), in collaboration with the agriculture department and the Tawang KVK, organised a &#8216;Plant genetic resources awareness programme-cum-diversity fair&#8217; here on Friday. Interacting with the farmers who attended the event, the NBGPR&#8217;s seed technology principal scientist, Dr Sushil Pandey, [&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-86323","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\/86323","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=86323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}