{"id":27299,"date":"2018-10-23T12:59:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27299"},"modified":"2018-10-23T12:59:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:29:38","slug":"pt-facts-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pt-facts-4\/","title":{"rendered":"PT FACTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PT FACTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/assam-researchers-develop-low-cost-filter-to-remove-arsenic-from-drinking-water\/story-ffblO4TytQ0zYHnZ1QOSbJ.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assam researchers develop low-cost filter to remove arsenic from drinking water<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Source of Arsenic<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Naturally in rocks and soil, water, air, plants, and animals, volcanic activity, the erosion of rocks and minerals, and forest fires<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anthropogenic occurrence by Agrochemicals, wood preservatives, industrial sources, mineral processing, acid mine drainage, burning of fossil fuels etc<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disease causes by arsenic<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Skin cancer,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> lung and bladder cancer<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Vascular system disease<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Diabetes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Blackfoot disease etc<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Treatment of contaminated water using small quantities of cooking soda, potassium permanganate and ferric chloride<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/agri-business\/lending-a-helping-hand-to-coconut-farmers\/article25022113.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lending a helping hand to coconut farmers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Project Kalpavriksha<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project has field staff that visit coconut farms, advises farmers on best practices, disease and yield improvement free of cost.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It now covers almost 6,000 coconut farmers in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a digital library and toll free number.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Project Kalpavriksha will also bring on its platform start-ups, financial institutions, and government agencies.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PT FACTS Assam researchers develop low-cost filter to remove arsenic from drinking water Source of Arsenic Naturally in rocks and soil, water, air, plants, and animals, volcanic activity, the erosion of rocks and minerals, and forest fires Anthropogenic occurrence by Agrochemicals, wood preservatives, industrial sources, mineral processing, acid mine drainage, burning of fossil fuels etc&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pt-facts-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PT FACTS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704703811},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}