Ragi Ladoos – Nutritious & Healthy Millets making a comeback due to their rise in demand by the people and the ability of millets to face climate change creating space on the farmers’ fields. Finger Millet (Ragi) is widely accepted in India due to its ease in processing and making different recipes. Ragi Lodoos made … Read more
Solar Millet Processing Unit: The first-ever solar millet processing unit was inaugurated on 10th, August 2021 in the village Gobindapur of Manikapur GP, Mohana Block of Gajapati district in Odisha. This unit is established with support from Odisha Millet Mission, Watershed Support Services and Activities Network(WASSAN), and SELCO Foundation, to be managed by Taptapani Farmer … Read more
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
Can we eat Millets Daily? The demand for Millets is growing as people around the globe have become more conscious about their health. Most of the health problems arise only due to the food we intake. The magnificent ancient grains taking their place in the diet plan due to their high nutrition profile. But while … Read more
Health Benefits of Millets: In this busy world, we sometimes forget the good things, which matters a lot for our life and healthy living. We do not care unless until we do not need it again. The same thing happened with millets. It was the time in India when millets were part of people’s diet … Read more
Sorghum a Wonder Grain: Sorghum is an ancient grain that comes under the major millet category. Major millet due to its size and the area of production. This grain is the nutrient-rich, gluten-free, and best alternative to wheat and rice in terms of everything. We called ”Sorghum a wonder grain” due to its versatility and … Read more
How to Cook Millets Perfectly: Millets the Superfood, the powerhouse of nutrients that are rich in iron, calcium, protein, vitamins phytochemicals, and anti-oxidants. Due to its magical properties, it has again come back to our plate. These grains were completely lost and we also forgot or not familiar with them. In the beginning, it was … Read more
Millets in Hindi: Millets are the ancient grains that were lost from our plate due to our more preference for Wheat and Rice. Now the demand for millets is increasing in India and also in the global market because it is full of nutrients and can build our immunity. In this blog, we will look … Read more
First Millets Processing Unit under Odisha Millet Mission – Inaugurated in Keonjhar District, Odisha: The Special Programme for Promotion of Millets in Tribal Areas of Odisha (Odisha Millet Mission) was launched by the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Empowerment, Government of Odisha in 2017 to revive millets in farms and on plates. It was the … Read more
Millets for Birds: In the last Kharif season, when I visited a research farm on Millets, could find net covering all over the crop field. When enquired, could know that birds were damaging the crops. No doubt, there were other crops, but the birds loved only Millets. Today, I thought of sharing about millets and … Read more