Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has urged ITC Chairman Sanjiv Puri to deploy a team to Karnataka for sourcing Sri Anna millets from drought-affected farmers. Following discussions with state ministers, Sitharaman requests additional support measures and highlights the Centre s initiatives to aid farmers, as posted on social media platform X
India News: India has launched a five-day Millets Festival here in the Indonesian capital to raise awareness for millets as a farmer-friendly and sustainable food
According to the official, the effort is also to improve India s ranking on the Global Hunger Index where the low ranking for India is not because of low availability of food but for the low nutritional value of the existing crops that results in malnutrition in India s newborn children and females.