{"id":7315,"date":"2014-03-08T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/aikgas-spring-festival-with-focus-on_8\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T06:35:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T01:05:54","slug":"aikgas-spring-festival-with-focus-on_8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/aikgas-spring-festival-with-focus-on_8\/","title":{"rendered":"AIKGA\u2019s SPRING FESTIVAL WITH FOCUS ON AQUAPONICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<br \/><b>FESTIVAL MARK\u2019s INTERNATIONAL  WOMEN\u2019S  DAY<\/b><br \/>The annual spring festival of the All India Kitchen Garden Association (AIKGA) with the theme \u2018Aquaponics\u2019 (growing vegetables and harvest fresh fish at home) opened here today at Gulmohar Park club. The festival also marked the International Women\u2019s day celebrated world wide on the same day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\u201cThis year  AIKGA has shifted  the focus and theme  of the show on \u2018Aquaponics\u2019 gardening as this trend is becoming popular world wide  for growing vegetables and fish round the year. The key to aquaponics lies in the water that the plants and fish share. The fish supply nutrients that feed the plants, and the plants clean the water so the fish can live in it.&#8221; said Ms Bella Gupta, Secretary, All India Kitchen Garden Association (AIKGA) while speaking on the occasion . <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAquaponics is a viable way to home gardening where Non-root vegetables, like tomatoes, cucumber and lettuce, can thrive in an aquaponic system, while some varieties of edible fish, like tilapia, can be raised to be eaten in the same setup. For promoting this trend AIKGA has organised two sessions of one hour each during the festival. But their will be no entry fee for the festival\u201d said Ms Gupta.<\/p>\n<p> The other highlights of the spring festival icmldue sale of garden related items, farm fresh vegetables, seeds and plants for summers. Various chapters of the association in Delhi and National Capital Region will be presenting  whole range of nutrition food and related recipes to meet the needs of changing lifestyle.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FESTIVAL MARK\u2019s INTERNATIONAL WOMEN\u2019S DAYThe annual spring festival of the All India Kitchen Garden Association (AIKGA) with the theme \u2018Aquaponics\u2019 (growing vegetables and harvest fresh fish at home) opened here today at Gulmohar Park club. The festival also marked the International Women\u2019s day celebrated world wide on the same day.&nbsp; \u201cThis year AIKGA has shifted the focus and theme of the show on \u2018Aquaponics\u2019 gardening as this trend is becoming popular world wide for growing vegetables and fish round the year. The key to aquaponics lies in the water that the plants and fish share. The fish supply nutrients that <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[221,8,1879],"class_list":["post-7315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-update","tag-city-hulchal","tag-news-events","tag-update","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59973,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315\/revisions\/59973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}