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Komal gupta

19/02/22 13:20 PM IST

Role of Farmers Producer Organisations

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A seminar on India: Millets production and upscaling value chain was conducted by the India Pavilion at EXPO2020.

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  • With the onset of the declaration of International Year of Millets in 2023 by the UN General Assembly, India is active in leading the world by sharing best practises, technologies, the goodness of millets along with the awareness pertaining to its nutritive value and experiences with other countries.
  • The experts from industries and government acknowledge the fact that the FPOs can play a transformative role in enhancing the production of millets with the increase in its export potential.
  • The FPOs can enable the setting up of a framework which is inclusive in nature and can take the producing communities along.
  • This will offer momentum to the entire campaign of promoting millets, creating rooms for formalising the unorganised food processing system.
  • The FPOs along with the cooperatives can be provided with technical support, credit linkages and adequate storage capacity to avoid food wastage.

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