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Nutritious Cereals: India Leading Cover Story
programmes both in the country and abroad
to increase the popularity of millets and other
nutritious cereals. Further, all Ministries and
Departments of the Government of India, in
collaboration with the Department of Agriculture
I am positive that 2023, the and Farmers Welfare (DA&FW) and the Department
of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE),
International Year of Millets, will promote nutritional cereals. The International
will launch a mass movement Year of Millets action plan focuses on strategies
to increase production, consumption, exports,
towards a safe, sustainable branding, and so on. To promote millets, the
central government has also launched the PLI
and healthy future. States scheme. On March 31, the government approved
the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for
should work on research the food processing industry with an outlay of
Rs 10,900 crore as part of the Prime Minister's
related to millet products Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan announcement. The
like processing, packaging, scheme will be implemented over a seven-year
period, from 2021-22 to 2026-27.
The primary goals of the scheme include
marketing, branding etc." developing global food manufacturing champions
- Narendra Modi, Prime Minister and promoting Indian food brands in international
markets. The scheme has identified specific
food products with high growth potential for
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