Kaur, Jagir and Sharma, Rouble Rani  <br/><br/>
Policy of millet mission and India’s self-reliance: Opportunities and practices 

 - Bihar Journal of Public Administration  
 - 20(2), Jul-Dec, 2023: p.453-461 
<br/><br/> India’s Self-reliance in food and nutrition with climate resilient cropping pattern has become the need of the hour. The Covid-19 pandemic and aggravating war situations in Ukraine and gulf countries have created an emergency to adopt such a policy that makes India self-reliant in diverse staple food in congruence with the situations of the climate change. Millets have been a part of several marketing campaigns in recent years, including being called “super food,” “diet for all human ailments,” “climate-smart food for soil and earth,” and many others. As such, the present paper examines India’s most recent policy initiatives to achieve nutritional security and national self-sufficiency through Millet Mission. The study is based on secondary sources of data and finds that there are ample prospects ‘Millet Mission’ in achieving self-reliance in food and nutritional security, climate friendly farming and substantive contribution of food to the rest of the world.- Reproduced <br/><br/>http://www.iipabiharbranch.org/<br/>