{"id":308605,"date":"2019-01-29T05:24:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T05:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308605"},"modified":"2019-01-29T05:24:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T05:24:35","slug":"icars-kisan-gandhi-tableau-bags-first-prize-at-republic-day-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/icars-kisan-gandhi-tableau-bags-first-prize-at-republic-day-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"ICAR&#8217;s &#8216;Kisan Gandhi&#8217; Tableau bags First Prize at Republic Day Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308611 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/icar-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/icar-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/icar.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) was awarded First Prize for its Tableau, \u2018Kisan Gandhi\u2019 in the Republic Day Parade in New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday handed over the award to the ICAR team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The ICAR tableau displayed the importance of dairy farming, use of indigenous breeds and livestock based organic agriculture for rural prosperity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The ICAR tableau \u201cKisan Gandhi\u201d portrayed the Gandhi\u2019s vision to improve agriculture and livestock for the prosperity of rural communities. To gain more insight, he attended a training program on dairy farming for fifteen days in 1927 at Bangalore Centre of the ICAR &#8211; National Dairy Research Institute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In order to realize Gandhi&#8217;s dream, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research is relentlessly working towards transforming the Indian Agriculture for ensuring livelihood security and higher income of our Annadata, the farmers. By developing and deploying cutting edge science and technology, India has succeeded in achieving food self-sufficiency and remains the highest milk and cotton producer in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the tableau, Gandhi was shown with goats and a cow. Organic agriculture, revolution in cotton and milk production and food safety analysis for better health were also showcased.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kasturba Gandhi was also shown engaged with Charkha and caring for animals at Bapu Kuti at Wardha Ashram. It symbolized livestock based sustainable and climate resilient agriculture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 22 tableaux rolling down the Rajpath during the 70th\u00a0Republic Day Parade included 16 tableaux from states and Union Territories, six from various central ministries and departments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The ICAR Republic Day tableau &#8211; 2018 rolled down at Rajpath with the theme of integrated farming, \u201cMishrit Kheti, Khushiyon Ki Kheti\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) was awarded First Prize for its Tableau, \u2018Kisan Gandhi\u2019 in the Republic Day Parade in New Delhi. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday handed over the award to the ICAR team. The ICAR tableau displayed the importance of dairy farming, use of indigenous breeds and livestock based organic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10709,4753,369],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308605"}],"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=308605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308613,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308605\/revisions\/308613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}