{"id":7407,"date":"2013-01-25T12:24:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T06:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=7407"},"modified":"2013-01-25T12:24:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T06:54:42","slug":"4th-edition-of-balakrishi-sastra-congress-held-at-trivandrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/4th-edition-of-balakrishi-sastra-congress-held-at-trivandrum\/","title":{"rendered":"4th edition of Balakrishi Sastra Congress held at Trivandrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 4th edition of <strong>Balakrishi Sastra Congress<\/strong> (Children\u2019s Farm Science Congress) organized by the Agri-Friends in coordination with the Departments of Agriculture, Education and Horticulture Mission, was held at the Museum compound.<\/p>\n<p>`<strong>Krishi- Nattarivum Sastravum<\/strong>\u2019 was the main theme of the Balakrishi Sastra Congress. The two-day Congress began on Wednesday with a procession taken out on the museum premises by students dressed as traditional farmers.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors to the Museum were taken by surprise when they came across the stalls which displayed innovative farm experiments done by students, either in their homes or in schools. The students also shared the experiences and bits of traditional wisdom to revive.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7411\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7411\" class=\"wp-image-7411 \" title=\"Balakrishi Sastra Congress (Img Courtesy- thehindu)\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/01\/Balakrishi-Sastra-Congress-Img-Courtesy-thehindu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"371\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Balakrishi Sastra Congress (Img Courtesy- thehindu)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The students of Poomangalam UPS at Kurumathur, Kannur cannot stop talking about their bees. The school regularly made the local news for the past five years for their beekeeping (apiculture) activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHazel Armstrong, a lady from England who is also into beekeeping, had come to our school a couple of years ago just to see our activities,\u201d said Harish Lal, a class 7 student of the school.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from exhibition stalls, paper presentations by the students on their experiences and research, were also displayed at the congress. Student farmers from several parts of the district and state participated in the Balakrishi Sastra Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Green Touch Krishi Media will present a cash prize of Rs 10,001 and trophy for best 7 minute long video clippings shot by the students on farming.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a cash prize of Rs 11,111 for the best \u2018Child Farm Scientist\u2019 and the best school will earn a cash prize of Rs 7,777. Selected 8 project teams will get a chance to visit the Thrissur Agriculture College and to make presentations before senior researchers in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4th edition of Balakrishi Sastra Congress (Children\u2019s Farm Science Congress) organized by the Agri-Friends in coordination with the Departments of Agriculture, Education and Horticulture Mission, was held at the Museum compound. `Krishi- Nattarivum Sastravum\u2019 was the main theme of the Balakrishi Sastra Congress. The two-day Congress began on Wednesday with a procession taken out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-7407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}