International year of Millets 2023

ICAR-CCARI, Goa organized Campaign on Nutri-Garden and Tree Plantation

    ICAR - KVK, North Goa of ICAR - CCARI, Goa, celebrated 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 on women health as well as 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 use of millets in daily diet will improve the income of the millets growers on one hand and improve the nutritional and health status of consumers on the other hand.

    Shri 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 theme of the programme and gave lecture on importance of Nutrithali. As a part of the programme cooking competition by using millets and leafy vegetables and rangoli competition by using cereals / pulses / vegetables were also organized. The programme was organised in collaboration with IFFCO. 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.