Experts at the ongoing three-day International Millets Conference at Hyderabad say the momentum the International Year of Millets provided last year should be carried forward
If you eat millets, you don’t need to bother about industrial food fortification and in millets you have all the essential nutrients, such as zinc, iron, and calcium. Raj Bhandari, member of the National Technical Board on Nutrition (NTBN), has said that the onus is on us to identify the positive attributes and make people aware of them.
Addressing the inaugural session of the three-day International Millets Conference here on Thursday, he said that global agricultural productivity was expected to come down by 20 per cent by 2050. “On one hand, productivity is coming down, on the other, we are supposed to feed more people. By 2050, we have to provide food to 9.2 billion. A large number of people across the globe are suffering from hidden hunger,” he said.
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