{"id":92416,"date":"2020-02-05T02:18:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T20:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=92416"},"modified":"2020-02-05T02:18:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T20:48:04","slug":"min-urges-dept-to-popularize-mulberry-cultivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/02\/05\/min-urges-dept-to-popularize-mulberry-cultivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Min urges dept to popularize mulberry cultivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>YAZALI, Feb 4:<\/strong> Education Minister Taba Tedir advised the textile &amp; handicrafts department to popularize mulberry cultivation for silkworms, saying &#8220;the returns in terms of product and cost are much reliable than other commercial plants.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe minister said this after inaugurating a Sarkar Aapke Dwar (SAD) camp here in Lower Subansiri district on Tuesday.<br \/>\nInteracting with the officials of the department, led by Joint Director Hage Tatan, Tedir said, &#8220;Mulberry leaves have medicinal value and can be consumed not only by the silkworm and animals but humans as well.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe exhorted the people to avail the benefits of SAD camps and remain informed about the government&#8217;s programmes and policies.<br \/>\nThe minister distributed yarns to 10 beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Bunkar Yojana, and gas connections under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjawala Yojana.<br \/>\nThe District Health Society set up a medical camp where eye screening, free NCD screening for body pressure, sugar etc, were carried out, and awareness on the novel coronavirus created.<br \/>\nThe camp was supervised by Yachuli ADC JT Obi and Yazali CO TW Thongdok. Villagers from Pitapool, Chulyu, Tago, Poosa and the NEEPCO benefitted from it.<br \/>\nDC Chukhu Takar accompanied the minister.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the Tawang district administration and other government departments provided services to the people during a SAD camp organised at Mirba village on Tuesday.<br \/>\nJang ADC Lobsang Wangchu Bapu inaugurated the camp, in the presence of CO Thupten Wangchu, DMO Dr Wangdi Lama, and others. (DIPROs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YAZALI, Feb 4: Education Minister Taba Tedir advised the textile &amp; handicrafts department to popularize mulberry cultivation for silkworms, saying &#8220;the returns in terms of product and cost are much reliable than other commercial plants.&#8221; The minister said this after inaugurating a Sarkar Aapke Dwar (SAD) camp here in Lower Subansiri district on Tuesday. Interacting [&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-92416","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\/92416","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=92416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}