Processing units will be set up in selected rural industrial parks of millet producing areas of the state. Food items prepared from millet will also be included in the mid-day meals being run in schools and hot meals being served in Anganwadi centers. Apart from this, the use of millet will be promoted in security forces’ camp-training centers etc. To promote the use of millets in the meeting of the State Level Coordination Committee constituted to promote the production and use of millets crops (kodo, kutki, ragi, jowar) in the state at Mantralaya Mahanadi Bhawan today. Instructed to prepare an action plan.Chief Secretary Shri Jain has said that to increase the production of millets, a meeting should be held at the committee level of the registered farmers and detailed information about the loans and other facilities being provided by the government should be given to the farmers. Instructions were also given to set up a processing unit for these grains in the selected Rural Industrial Park (RIPA)-Gauthan, where the production of millet crops is satisfactory. Along with this, instructions have been given to make arrangements for the mid-day meal scheme, hot meals in Anganwadis, ashram hostels, camp-training centers of security forces and its use at other places. Will be celebrated as the Year of Millets. In Chhattisgarh, effective work has been started through the Millets Mission to promote the utility of millets grains. The state government has announced a support price of Rs.3000 per quintal for Kodo and Rs.3100 per quintal for Kutki. Ragi will be procured at the rate of Rs.3578 per quintal at the support price fixed by the Government of India. A target has been set to increase the area under production of millet crops by one lakh hectare in the next five years. In the year 2021-22, 52 thousand 728 quintal millet has been procured by the state government. This year Kodo, Kutki, Ragi crops will be procured on support price in the state from December 15 through 850 procurement centers of the Minor Forest Produce Association. Millets Mission Scheme has been operated to increase the area and production for millets crops in the state. He is going. Through the mission, work will be done to increase the area, production and productivity of millets crops in the next five years. Effective work will be done in the direction of processing, value addition and marketing of Millets crops. Work will be done in the direction of effective control of malnutrition by including the use of millets grains in the daily diet. Along with efforts will be made to increase the income of farmers. In the meeting, PCCF Mr. Sanjay Shukla, Principal Secretary Forest and Home Mr. Manoj Pingua, Director General of Police Mr. Ashok Juneja, Secretary General Administration Mr. D.D. Singh, Secretary Agriculture Dr. Kamalpreet Singh, Secretary School Education Dr. S.Bhartidasan, Secretary Food Mr. Topeshwar Verma, Director Agriculture Mr. Ayaz Tamboli, Director of Rural Livelihood Mission Mr. Avnish Sharan, Director Women and Child Development Department Ms. Divya Umesh Mishra including Panchayat and Rural Development Department, Health Department Senior officials were present.Like this:Like Loading…Continue Reading
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