The former CEO of National Rainfed Area Authority and agro economist Ashok Dalawai has said that the country is now marching ahead towards achieving nutritional security, after achieving self-reliance in food production.
Inaugurating a national symposium on Millets for Climate Smart Sustainable Agriculture and Sound Human Health organised as part of the 15th All India Vice-Chancellors Meet at the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) in Dharwad on Thursday, he said that in India, where over 10 types of millets are grown, the area under millet cultivation has been expanding in the last one decade.
“Though millets are widely cultivated in India, Green Revolution has taken place only in major crops such as rice and wheat. And, India ranks 106th in the global hunger index,” he said and added that millets have the potential to mitigate malnutrition in the country.
