{"id":517641,"date":"2022-08-29T11:57:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T06:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=517641"},"modified":"2022-08-29T11:57:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T06:27:45","slug":"need-to-diversify-agriculture-towards-power-energy-sectors-nitin-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/need-to-diversify-agriculture-towards-power-energy-sectors-nitin-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Need to diversify agriculture towards power, energy sectors: Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With India being energy deficient, there is a need for the country to diversify agriculture into energy and power sectors, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already have energy shortage. We are making an expenditure of Rs 15 lakh crore every year for importing petrol, diesel and other petroleum products. So, this is the time we can diversify agriculture towards the energy and power sector,\u201d Gadkari said while addressing the felicitation programme of National Cogeneration Awards 2022 in Mumbai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With India being energy deficient, there is a need for the country to diversify agriculture into energy and power sectors, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said on Saturday. \u201cWe already have energy shortage. We are making an expenditure of Rs 15 lakh crore every year for importing petrol, diesel and other petroleum products. So, this is the time we can diversify agriculture towards the energy and power sector,\u201d Gadkari said while addressing the felicitation programme of National Cogeneration Awards 2022 in Mumbai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}