Millets: Lost Superfood back on Dining Tables
Food Fest-Experience Millets
March 16 and 17, 2024, BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru.
Exhibition-Cum-Conference
In the backdrop of celebrating the success of Millets rejuvenation in the country, Laghu Udyog Bharati and IMS Foundation, in association with Big Foundation, is organizing “Food Fest-Experience Millets” a Pan-India trade show aimed at bringing together micro, small, and medium industries and connecting them with buyers.
To take the goodness of this rediscovered superfood, “Food Fest-Experience Millets” is scheduled to take place on March 16 and 17, 2024, (Saturday and Sunday) at BMS College of Engineering, Basavanagudi Bengaluru.
Kum. Sushri Shobha Karandlaje, Hon’ble Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare and Food Processing Industries Gol has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest and deliver the keynote address at the inaugural session at the above event.
In addition to the exhibition, where over 100 stalls will be displaying Millet-based products, a concurrent two-day conference on the theme “Destination Millets”, is also being organised covering various topics including Innovation in Millets, Market Trends and Demand Analysis, supply chain logistics and quality, Financial & Business support, Networking & Collaboration opportunities. Over 500 delegates are expected to actively participate in the conference.
For the general public a recipe-making Competition will be hosted to encourage culinary creativity and promote the use of millets in everyday cooking, engaging the general public in a fun and interactive way.
The organisers expect the following key outcomes from the two-day event:
1. Networking and collaboration opportunity of SMEs in the food sector
2. Creating an awareness about Millets among the students and general public
3. Business/startup opportunities for SMEs through B2B interactions and B2C sales
4. Knowledge sharing of the food industry through talks delivered by experts.
5. Exposure for students to the world of food-related business.
6. Long-term Collaborations and fostering SHG, Micro and Small business
Millets are often referred to as Superfood and its production can be seen as an approach for sustainable agriculture and a healthy world. Multidimensional benefits associated with millets can address the issues related to nutrition security, food systems security, and farmers’ welfare.
Once a common food item on Indian plates, millets hardly find any place as cereals in modern Indian diet now, as rice and wheat have taken over as staple food. However, slowly Millets is now finding place on the dining tables. Millets are superfoods that can potentially provide a solution to several diseases and metabolic disorders. Superfoods are food items that claim to confer health benefits resulting from their exceptional nutrient density. Common millets include pearl millet (bajra), proso millet (barri), sorghum (jawar), finger millet (ragi), barley (jo), oats (jaee) and foxtail millet (kangani).
Millets are food grains having high nutritional features and health benefits and are cultivated with minimal water & inputs. They are cultivated across the country in various agro-ecological regions, having less infestation of pest and diseases and thus can be grown easily as organic crops. Consequent to the initiative of the Government of India, the United Nations has declared the year 2023 as the International Year of Millets (IYOM). This will create both domestic and global demand and enhance exports from India. To give impetus to the export of potential products as well as to remove the bottlenecks in the supply chain of nutri cereals, the Government, through Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has created Nutri Cereals Export Promotion Forum.
Top domain experts from NABARD, NIFTEM-Thanjavur, Nutrihub, LeadsConnect, ITC, GFI, Grafitec to name a few will be sharing their incisive thoughts on the millets sector at that two-day conference where the organisers expect a footfall of close to 5,000 participants, the above statements were released at press club of bangalore by Bhojaraj C N,Honorary Secretary-IMS Foundation
At press meet Smt. Chaya Prabhu, Secretaray, Smt. Hema Rajesh, Secretary and Smt. Sandhya Walvekar of LUBK were present.
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