{"id":96352,"date":"2020-03-14T02:15:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T20:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=96352"},"modified":"2020-03-14T02:15:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T20:45:20","slug":"krishi-mela-organized-at-nerist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/03\/14\/krishi-mela-organized-at-nerist\/","title":{"rendered":"Krishi Mela organized at NERIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>NIRJULI, Mar 13:<\/strong> Over 100 farmers from Chullyu, Yachuli and Laptap villages and from adjoining villages in Assam took part in a &#8216;Krishi Mela&#8217; organized by the NERIST&#8217;s agricultural engineering department here on Friday under the All India Coordinated Research Project on Ergonomics and Safety in Agriculture (AICRP on ESA).<br \/>\nAgriculture Minister Tage Taki, who inaugurated the fair, said &#8220;the youths from IT sectors are moving back to agriculture because all other sectors can be saturated in the near future. However, farming can never be saturated.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said doubling the farmers&#8217; income by 2024 could be achieved &#8220;if the farmers take up fisheries and piggery along with agriculture and horticulture.&#8221;<br \/>\nTaki advised local entrepreneurs to take up the task of providing feed for fishery and piggery units &#8220;as it would minimize the cost of feed, which is otherwise being procured from outside the state.&#8221;<br \/>\nNERIST Director, Prof HS Yadav, informed that the institute is &#8220;in the process to develop a technology facility centre where farmers from Arunachal and nearby villages of Assam can avail the benefits of the research done in the department of agricultural engineering.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe NERIST&#8217;s Agriculture Department Joint Director, Tadu Game, presented a brief on the latest technology available for improving the farmers&#8217; income, and urged the farmers to stop jhum cultivation and practice settled cultivation.<br \/>\nThe event included &#8216;training-cum-demonstration&#8217; on sericulture practice, mushroom cultivation, beekeeping and jam and jelly preparation.<br \/>\nThe fair was also aimed at helping develop linkages among farmers, educational and research institutions, government agencies and manufacturers\/dealers of agricultural tools and machinery.<br \/>\nNineteen stalls were put up at the fair, where the NERIST&#8217;s agricultural engineering department and the AICRP on ESA demonstrated improved hand tools and machinery for paddy cultivation; ladders for harvesting fruits; remote-controlled power tillers; safety gadgets for machetes and sickles; improved backpack for load-carrying; pea planters, maize shellers, and such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIRJULI, Mar 13: Over 100 farmers from Chullyu, Yachuli and Laptap villages and from adjoining villages in Assam took part in a &#8216;Krishi Mela&#8217; organized by the NERIST&#8217;s agricultural engineering department here on Friday under the All India Coordinated Research Project on Ergonomics and Safety in Agriculture (AICRP on ESA). Agriculture Minister Tage Taki, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-96352","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\/96352","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=96352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}