Millet Mission

Special Programme for Promotion of Millets in Tribal Areas

Mahashakti Foundation with the esteemed support of Odisha Millets Mission started a special programme for promotion of Millets Mission in tribal areas. The operation is held in Bijepur Block of Bargarh district.

Main objectives of the programme:

• . To promote millet-based cooked recipes and ready-to-eat foods such as
  bakery
• . Undertake awareness building programs on nutritional values of millets to different stakeholders
• . To restore and increase consumption of millets in the households through
  awareness, counselling and food festival
• . To increase the household consumption of millets by 25%

The programme intends to establish a decentralized seed system managed by the farmers’ based organizations that will produce and supply quality landraces or varieties of millets and other crops suitable for their locality well in time to the farmers. This seed systems will explore possibility of supplying quality seeds to programmes such as OMM, ATMA, PKVY, Odisha Organic Mission, any farmer. In the long-run, the purpose of community managed seed system is to cater demand driven seed supply to local farmers with less dependent on government subsidies/traders. Community resource persons plays a key role in the implementation of the activities through farmers interface at ground level.