{"id":302542,"date":"2018-09-12T05:51:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T05:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302542"},"modified":"2018-09-12T06:35:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T06:35:37","slug":"punjab-to-supply-pigs-to-nagaland-to-earn-rs-200-crore-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-to-supply-pigs-to-nagaland-to-earn-rs-200-crore-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab to supply pigs to Nagaland, to earn Rs 200 Crore annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_302544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302544\" style=\"width: 591px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-to-supply-pigs-to-nagaland-to-earn-rs-200-crore-annually\/pigs-punjab-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-302544\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302544\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Pigs-punjab-1-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Pigs-punjab-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Pigs-punjab-1-651x420.jpg 651w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Pigs-punjab-1.jpg 691w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">For Representational Purpose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Chandigarh, September 12, 2018:<\/strong> Punjab will soon start supplying 8000 live pigs every month to Nagaland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After a meeting with a delegation of the Nagaland governmment, Punjab\u2019s Animal Husbandry minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said the arrangement would yield Rs 200 Crore revenue to his government annually.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The memorandum of understanding in this regard will be signed in the coming days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to Sidhu, the delegation expressed keen interest in importing live pigs from Punjab as the people of Nagaland consider pork meat of Punjab full of\u00a0\u00a0nutritious value, hygienic and healthy as compare to the pork of others part of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">To start with 100 live pigs will be sent for exhibiting at different places of Nagaland to create interest among the people and to generate more demand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Punjab government will issue health certificates of these pigs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The deliberations for the supply of Punjab&#8217;s chicken and fish to the Nagaland were also held during the meeting. Proposal to impart training in Punjab to the progressive farmers and veterinary doctors of Nagaland was also put forward by the minister before the visiting delegation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The\u00a0 Nagaland delegation included Principal Secretary to the Government Lhoubeilatuo Kire, Advisor Bongkhao Konyak, Joint Director Dr. Anungla Imdong Phom, Advisor Marketing Rajpal Singh Arora and Consultant Richard Belho.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh, September 12, 2018: Punjab will soon start supplying 8000 live pigs every month to Nagaland. After a meeting with a delegation of the Nagaland governmment, Punjab\u2019s Animal Husbandry minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said the arrangement would yield Rs 200 Crore revenue to his government annually. The memorandum of understanding in this regard will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2913,2014],"tags":[4939,750,4940,279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302546,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302542\/revisions\/302546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}