Odisha: Padhee suggests millet snacks in Govt meetings

Bhubaneswar, September 22: State Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Department Principal Secretary Dr Arabinda Kumar Padhee has requested all the departments to include millet-based snacks in the official meetings. In a letter to the administrative head of all the departments in the State, Padhee said, “The Departments can add millet-based products like cookies, mixture, sticks, khurma. […]

Continue Reading

Millets are precious crops, can work wonders

Phulbani: Millets are the wonder crops endowed by nature. Fortified with protein, vitamins including balanced amino-acid, natural fibres and minerals like zinc and phosphorous, having ability of wound healing and disease curing, it can work wonders. This was the opinion of agriculture, food scientists and administrative officials at a workshop on safe and nutrition food […]

Continue Reading