Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) and Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP), Telangana jointly organised National Conclave on Promotion of Millets through SHGs and Producer Organisations on 31st October to 1st November, 2022.
The first national conclave was jointly organised by the DAY-NRLM, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India and the Society for Elimination of rural Poverty (SERP), Government of Telangana from 31st October to 1st November, 2022 with an objective to provide for roadmap to promote millets through SHGs. National Conclave is organized as run up for International Year of Millets 2023.
National Conclave has participants from 16 State Rural Livelihoods Missions (SRLM) and officers from Ministry of Rural Development. 20 start-ups working on Millet Value Chain are participated in the conclave.Start-ups showcased their products and ideas.
The National conclave is inaugurated by Shri Charanjit Singh, Addl. Secretary, MoRD.
Shri. Sandeep Kumar Sultania, Secretary PR&RD, Government of Telangana extended a warm welcome to Shri. Charanjit Singh, Additional Secretary, MoRD and State Mission Directors and other participants from across the country. He briefly explained the efforts of Government of Telangana for promotion of Millets.
The conclave had detailed deliberations on the Millet landscape in India, emerging technology for improved millet productivity, millet value chain intervention scope and need, opportunity of millets for SHGs, experience sharing by development partners. The technical session shared emerging trends in the productivity enhancement, marketing, machinery and value addition.
A dedicated session on interaction with start-ups was organised to explore the partnership potential formillet-based value chain, solutions etc. and stalls were provided to demonstrate the same by Start-ups. Millet Culinary was also demonstrated by renowned chefs.
