{"id":94329,"date":"2020-02-23T01:32:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T20:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=94329"},"modified":"2020-02-23T01:32:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T20:02:53","slug":"villagers-destroy-poppy-cultivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/02\/23\/villagers-destroy-poppy-cultivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Villagers destroy poppy cultivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>LONGDING, Feb 22:<\/strong> Villagers destroyed opium sprouts in 50 different fields during a &#8216;mass evacuation drive of poppy plantation fields&#8217; in Kamhua Noknu village in Longding district on 21 February, under the joint initiative of the Kamhua Noknu Youth Association and the K Noknu Women Welfare Society (KWWS).<br \/>\nExhorting the villagers to fight the drug menace, youth leader Tonwang Wangham said, &#8220;The Wanchos have to abandon opium addiction. It not only annihilates the life of the addict but also ruins their families.&#8221;<br \/>\nKWWS president Nifut Losu highlighted how the opium business in the Wancho region &#8220;is equivalent to welcoming the dark ages,&#8221; and said the initiative to destroy the poppy fields would set an example for neighbouring villages that are affected by &#8220;the opium peril.&#8221;<br \/>\nLongding DSP B Tangzang and PS OC O Lego, who arrived at the spot, lauded the voluntary, large-scale participation of the villagers in the drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGDING, Feb 22: Villagers destroyed opium sprouts in 50 different fields during a &#8216;mass evacuation drive of poppy plantation fields&#8217; in Kamhua Noknu village in Longding district on 21 February, under the joint initiative of the Kamhua Noknu Youth Association and the K Noknu Women Welfare Society (KWWS). Exhorting the villagers to fight the drug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-94329","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\/94329","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=94329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}