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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Millets to be procured at MSP for public distribution system: Agri minister -Zia Haq

Millets to be procured at MSP for public distribution system: Agri minister -Zia Haq

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published Published on Apr 5, 2018   modified Modified on Apr 5, 2018
-Hindustan Times

The agriculture ministry has started a new programme to focus on millets or coarse cereal production, mostly grown by small and poor farmers

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has decided to include millets in the public distribution system for which it is procuring these grains at federally fixed minimum support prices, agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh said.

The agriculture ministry has started a new programme to focus on millets or coarse cereal production, mostly grown by small and poor farmers. Millets are a naturally rich source of vitamins and micro-nutrients.

Rajasthan is the top producer of coarse cereals in the country. Millets are mostly cultivated in low-fertile lands, mountainous terrain, tribal and rain-fed areas in states such as Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.

Supply of cheap millets to poor households and through school midday meals will improve nutrition outcomes among the poor and also boost incomes of small farmers, the minister said.

According to agriculture ministry data, the area under millets has been declining. Despite growing demand for millets from urban consumer because of their natural high content of vitamins, proteins, oils and minerals, in 2016-17, the area under millet cultivation declined to 14.72 million hectares, down 60% compared to the previous year. India produces, on an average, over 40 million tonnes of coarse cereals.

The ministry is rolling out a programme called “nutri-cereals” under the National Food Security Mission to increase output of millets, such as jowar (sorghum), bajra (pearl millet) and ragi (finger millet) as well as indigenous indigenous “little millets” known as kutki, kodo, sawa, kangni and cheena. The government has declared 2018 as the “National Year of Millets”.

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Hindustan Times, 3 April, 2018, https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/millets-to-be-procured-at-msp-for-public-distribution-system-agri-minister/story-cMQiSpeWBubIYTqy9EDVdK.html


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