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PASIGHAT, Jan 21: Legislator nized by College of Horticulture & ing for nutritional security apart from food security.Kentp Rina today exhorted farm- Forestry, CAU, Pasighat and KVK, He further informed that CAU-R1 is a rice variety. ers to adapt to new and innovative CHF, Pasighat under the theme which will increase yield and income for farmers.technology for increased horticul- "TechnologyLedAgriculture". He also took reference of a successful progressivetural production and productivity I Welcoming all, Dean, CHF Pa- farmer of Tripura, one Vishwajit Mazumdar who isfor the bettelment of the state. He sighat, Dr. AK Pandey, expressed now earning annual income of Rs. 18 lakhs fromwas speaking at the inauguration that Arunachal Pradesh is fortunate farming in just 2.6 Hectare of lands.of the 2 days Arunachal Agri. Expo to be blessedwith a vast diversity of Altogether, aroundseven hundredfarmers from2017 here at College of Horticulture flora and fauna. He emphasized on ~cross the state participated in today's agricultural& Forestry, CentralAgricultural Uni- importance.of citrus products of the xpo drawing around one thousand four hundredversity, Pasighat. statil p .• f' i. lsltors.Among other exhibltors, M/s Siang Biotech______________ --.,__ ~-----_;_.-----.-, ocated at Orin Market, Pasighatwho have tied up

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Arunachal Agri ExPO 2011 concludes11 Farmers urged to focus on quality produce

• Maksam Tayeng Progressive farmer/growercum Member of Board of Man-agement of CAU, Jokut Modi,highlighted on quality productrather than' onquantity, andasked the farmers to move to-wards the entrepreneurship infuture.

Lok Sabha MP, Ninong Er-ing in his valedictory speechlaid stress on the marketingchannels and setting up a mini-mum support price for farmers'produce. He appealed to thefarmers to exhibit qualitativeproduce, rather than quantity.

In today's concluding day ofthe expo, around 400 farmersparticipated and the winnersof the various sub-events wereawarded.

PASIGHAT, Jan 22: The Ar-unachal Agri Expo 2017 underthe theme "Technology LedAgriculture" concluded today atCollege of Horticulture & For-estry, Central Agricultural Uni-versity, Pasighat where variousprogrammes such as Farmer-Scientist Interaction, HealthyBaby Show, Dog Show, andTechnical Farm Demonstrationto farmers by the CHF scientistswere conducted.

Dean Dr.AK Pandey, thankedthe farmers for their participationand enthusiasm in the event. Hestressed on the need of farmersto adopt new technology in hor-ticulture crops.

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