Millet Food Festival Ensuring Nutritional Security: Nutritional Security is achieved ”when all people at all times consume food of sufficient quantity and quality in terms of variety, diversity, nutrient content and safety to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life, coupled with a sanitary environment, adequate health, education and … Read more
Odisha Millets Mission in Sundargarh: “Special Programme for Promotion of Millets in Tribal Areas of Odisha” (Odisha Millets Mission)- Reviving Millets on Farm to Plates. It is a flagship programme supported by the Department of Agriculture & Food Production, (Govt of Odisha) to promote millets. It was launched in Sundargarh district in the year 2018-19. … Read more
To utilize Finger Millet for Nutritional Security we have to focus on the following points in the coming days: Crop Cutting of Finger Millet 1. To increase the production and productivity of Finger Millet: Awareness creation on the system of millet intensification(SMI) of finger millet as this the method is giving more yield as compared … Read more
Nutri-Cereals – National Workshop in Odisha: Inaugurating a national workshop on Nutri-cereals, Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy said Odisha is the first State to introduce millets in the public distribution system and Niti Aayog has recognized it as a model State in this regard. The Odisha Millet Mission, launched in 2017, has now been extended to … Read more