{"id":3786,"date":"2003-12-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/12\/13\/2003-12-13-mizoram-to-be-organic-state\/"},"modified":"2003-12-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-13T12:00:00","slug":"2003-12-13-mizoram-to-be-organic-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/12\/13\/2003-12-13-mizoram-to-be-organic-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizoram to be Organic State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/356738.cms\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>BANGALORE, INDIA, December 13, 2003: Mizoram is set to become the first state in the country to ban the use of fertilizers and pesticides in agriculture and encourage organic food produce. &#8220;I have asked the government to introduce a legislation in the forthcoming Assembly session to ban fertilizers and pesticides and encourage organic food,&#8221; Mizoram Governor A R Kohli told industry leaders on Saturday at the CII sponsored human resources conclave here aimed at employment generation for youth from North East region. &#8220;We will be the first state to go for organic food production. Once we do, other states in the region will follow,&#8221; Kohli said. Asserting that North Eastern states were at a &#8216;take off&#8217; stage, he said, the emphasis of the governments was on encouraging self-employment among youth and bring prosperity to the region. &#8220;Our focus is on organic food, plantation, tourism industry, entertainment and sports activities, besides allied business like food processing for the entire region,&#8221; Kohli said. <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceBANGALORE, INDIA, December 13, 2003: Mizoram is set to become the first state in the country to ban the use,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}