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Bhubaneswar<\/strong>: The Odisha Cabinet on Friday approved an estimated budget of Rs. 2687.4587 crore for four years (2023-24 to 2026-27 financial years) for the implementation of the special programme to promote Odisha Millets Mission.<\/p>\n The Special Programme for Promotion of Millets-Odisha Millets Mission was launched by the Odisha government in 2017 to revive millets in farms and on plates.<\/p>\n It emerged from consultation between Government, Academia (NCDS) and Civil Society Organisations (RRA Network, ASHA Network and local NGOs).<\/p>\n It is the first of its kind of agriculture programme with a priority on increasing consumption in Odisha. The programme aims comprehensive revival of millets in farms and plates to promote climate-resilient farming and contribute to addressing micronutrient deficiency.<\/p>\n The programme is implemented through WSHGs\/FPOs with the support of NGOs and research institutions with oversight from the Department of Agriculture & Farmers\u2019 Empowerment.<\/p>\n In the first phase of implementation (2017-18), the programme was operational in 30 blocks across seven districts and is subsequently, expanded to 65 blocks in 11 districts.<\/p>\n In the second and third phases, the programme reached out to 84 blocks in 15 districts during the 2021-22. Further, it has been extended to 142 blocks of 19 districts during 2022-23.<\/p>\n Currently, the Odisha government has increased its area of implementation from 142 blocks in 19 districts to 177 blocks in all 30 districts from 2023-24 onwards.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Cabinet on Friday approved an estimated budget of Rs. 2687.4587 crore for four years (2023-24 to 2026-27 financial years) for the implementation of the special programme to promote Odisha Millets Mission. The Special Programme for Promotion of Millets-Odisha Millets Mission was launched by the Odisha government in 2017 to revive millets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4660,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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