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100 _a Kaur, Jagir and Sharma, Rouble Rani
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245 _aPolicy of millet mission and India’s self-reliance: Opportunities and practices
260 _aBihar Journal of Public Administration
300 _a20(2), Jul-Dec, 2023: p.453-461
520 _aIndia’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 http://www.iipabiharbranch.org/
773 _aBihar Journal of Public Administration
906 _aFOOD SECURITY
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