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100 BENEFICIARIES IN PHUSACHODU RECEIVE RS. 7000 EACH<\/strong><\/p>\n Seminar on piggery development<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nIn a bid to boost rural economy, a seminar on sustainable piggery development program was held at Phusachodu village under Phek District on March 2. The event doubled up as a program to distribute start-up money to 100 households.<\/div>\nA press release from the organizing committee stated that Kudecho Khamo, ex-candidate, NDPP and Dr. Kewelelo Mero district livestock development officer, Phek were the resource persons for the seminar.<\/div>\nKudecho Khamo, in his speech said pigs were one of the most reared animals in the state and it was the favourite meat of the Nagas. He however regretted that the state had to import large numbers of pigs from outside Nagaland to meet market demand which drains a huge amount of money from the state. <\/div>\nIt is very unfortunate that Nagaland still depends for almost everything on other states – be it vegetables or meat products etc. and hardly export anything to generate income and employment in spite of having much potential and resources, he added. <\/div>\nHe encouraged the villagers to start rearing pigs adding that “pig is a savings bank for villagers from where they can withdraw their savings at any time.”<\/div>\nHe asked the villagers to be honest, hard working and take projects of their choice suggesting that each household take up at least one farm or project and also rear pigs even if they cannot open a piggery farm. <\/div>\nKhamo was optimistic that Phusachodu village would become a pig surplus village in five years time and export pigs and piglets, if the villagers cooperate. <\/div>\nHe promised all possible help if the villagers should start piggery farms or start breeding pigs on a commercial scale.<\/div>\nKhamo donated Rs.7000 each to 100 households (Rs. 700000) in the village.<\/div>\nOf this, Rs. 3.50 lakhs was his personal donation and Rs. 2 Lakhs was received under Special Development Fund (SDF) 2018 and Rs. 1.50 Lakh was contributed by the minister Planning & Coordination, Land Revenue, Neiba Kronu.<\/div>\nPiggery farm owners Shevohu Khamo, Pfutsero Town and Vekho Keyho, Chozuba Village also shared their experiences during the seminar.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"