Agriculture

The Government, below the Sub Mission on National Food Security Mission (NFSM)- Nutri Cereals is making awareness among farmers for Nutri Cereals (Millets) like African millet, sorghum, bajra and little millets through demonstration and coaching.

·        National Food Security Mission (NFSM) – Nutri Cereals Under NFSM–Nutri Cereals, incentives are provided to the farmers, through the state governments, on crop production and protection technologies, cropping system based demonstrations, production & distribution of seeds of newly released varieties/ hybrids, Integrated Nutrient and Pest Management techniques, improved farm implements/tools/ resource conservation machineries, water saving devices, capacity building of farmers through trainings during cropping season, organizing events / workshops, distribution of seed minikits, publicity through print and electronic media etc.

·        The interventions like formation of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) for Nutri Cereals, fitting Centers of Excellence (CoE) and seed hubs for Nutri Cereals have additionally been supported below NFSM.

·        Nutri-Cereals: Asian country is one in every of the necessary shopper and producer of Nutri-cereals within the world.

·        Group of crops comprising sorghum (Jowar), Pennisetum Americanum (Bajra), corakan (Ragi/Mandua) and {little|and tiny} millets viz; little millet (Kutki), kodo millet (Kodo), yard millet (Sawa/Jhangora), Setaria italica (Kangni/Kakun), proso millet (Cheena) all at once comes below Millets that is currently known as as ‘Nutri-Cereals’ thanks to their high nutritious price.

·        Nutri-cereals were necessary crops within the country with higher space coverage as compared to wheat and rice before revolution amount.

·        After launching revolution, {the space|the world|the realm} of Nutri-cereals drastically reduced because of shifting of irrigated area from Nutri-cereals to additional remunerative crops like rice, wheat and sugarcane.

·        At gift, Nutri-cereals area unit grownup in resource poor agro-climatic regions, mountainous & social group areas of the country in rainfed conditions. Nutri-cereals area unit well-known for nutri-rich content and having characteristics like drought tolerance, photo-insensitivity and resilient to temperature change etc.

·        Nutri-cereals area unit grownup in arid and semi-arid tracts below low precipitation (200-600 mm) conditions, wherever fine cereals like wheat and rice cant be grownup profitably.