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Put millets back on the plate [1]

One of the key demands of the Right to Food Campaign for the National Food Security Act is to re-introduce nutritious millets to government food programmes like the public distribution system. Millets like bajra, jowar, kodo, kutki and ragi among hundreds of other varieties have sustained communities for close to 10,000 years in India.

Publication Date: 
11/06/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Green Revolution [3], Agricultural Research [4], Food Policy [5], Food Supply [6], Nutrition [7], Farmers [8], Food Safety [9], Times Of India (New Delhi) [2], Food Security [10]

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