PANAJI: ICAR – KVK, North Goa of ICAR – CCARI, Goa, celebrated an International year of Millets – 2023, campaign on Nurtri-Garden and Tree plantation at Surla and Nagargaon villages on 17th September 2021. Smt Sulakshana Sawant, Social Worker and spouse of Dr. Pramod Sawant, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Goa was the Chief Guest.
In her address, she appreciated works done by KVK, North Goa and ICAR-CCARI, Goa and emphasized women’s health and health of children and advised the ladies participants to increase the intake of millets in their daily diet. Dr. Parveen Kumar, Director, ICAR – CCARI, Goa highlighted the importance of millets as ‘Smart food’ and ‘Smart Crops’ because of their nutritional superiority over rice & wheat and better climate resilience and hardiness.
He opined that the use of millets in daily diet will improve the income of the millets growers and improve the nutritional and health status of consumers on the other hand.
HRC Prabhu, Sr. Scientist and Head, spoke on the importance of growing pesticide free vegetables and tree planting.
Smt Sunetra Talaulikar, Subject Matter Specialist (Home Science), in her welcome address, talked about the programme’s theme and gave lecture on the importance of Nutrithali. As a part of the programme cooking competition using millets and leafy vegetables, rangoli competition using cereals / pulses / vegetables was also organized.
To promote tree plantation 105 planting materials of mango, moringa etc. were given to the participants followed by tree plantation by the guests. Total 105 farm women attended the programme.
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