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Civil society organisations can play an enabling role in helping the government to combat malnutrition by introducing millets in ICDS  

Bajra, jowar and ragi – millets usually consumed in India – have almost four times the iron contained in brown rice, and three times the folic acid per serving.

Millets--jowar, bajra, maize and ragi--went from contributing 23% of the cereal requirements of Indians in 1983 to 6% in 2011

Use of natural inputs, minimum-till, mulching, multi-cropping and sowing of diverse and native varieties can increase the soil’s water-holding capacity

The formal poultry healthcare service system in the tribal districts Alluri Seetha Ramaju and Parvathipuram Manyam is almost non-existent

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Odisha’s mission to bring millets back to its fields and plates needs greater marketing support and promotion beyond tribal areas 

Ideation by an NGO, a little funding, collective labour help farmers in Vishakhapatnam go natural

Post mechanisation, for the first time there is innovation in farm equipment to revive bullocks and aid small farmers