{"id":32326,"date":"2017-06-18T00:08:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T00:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2017\/06\/18\/beneficial-insects-released-at-sasrd-nu-campus\/"},"modified":"2017-06-18T00:08:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T00:08:03","slug":"beneficial-insects-released-at-sasrd-nu-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2017\/06\/18\/beneficial-insects-released-at-sasrd-nu-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Beneficial insects\u2019 released  at SASRD, NU campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><\/p>\n<div>A study on the biology and effectiveness of the Mexican beetle under Nagaland condition is currently in progress at the department of Entomology, SASRD, Nagaland University with the aim of providing a safe management practice to suppress Parthenium weed in the state.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Parthenium hysterophorus, commonly known as congress grass or carrot weed is considered to be one of the most noxious weed. It is known to suppress the growth of local vegetation and also reported as a health hazard by causing dermatitis, eczema and asthma as well as causing health risk to cattle and other grazing animals.<\/div>\n<div>A trial batch of the Mexican beetles were released in the open on Parthenium weeds at SASRD campus by Prof. R. C. Gupta, dean, SASRD in presence of faculty and staff on June 15. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Meanwhile, the department of Entomology has expressed gratitude to Dr. Sushil Kumar, principal scientist, ICAR-Directorate of Weed Research, Jabalpur, MP, for providing a healthy batch of the Mexican beetles for the study.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study on the biology and effectiveness of the Mexican beetle under Nagaland condition is currently in progress at the department of Entomology, SASRD, Nagaland University with the aim of providing a safe management practice to suppress Parthenium weed in the state.&nbsp; Parthenium hysterophorus, commonly known as congress grass or carrot weed is considered to [&hellip;]<\/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-32326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32326","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=32326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}