Nepal is now ready to collaborate with India to increase the cultivation and consumption of millet

To boost millet cultivation and consumption, Nepal is now prepared to collaborate with India; here's why. Nepal's Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Livestock, Beduram Bhusal, expressed readiness to cooperate with India in order to promote the cultivation and consumption of millet. He made this statement during an event held in Kathmandu on Tuesday, where he played a leading role in the millet campaign and changed the name of this grain to 'Shri Anna' or 'Shubh Anna' to emphasize its potential health benefits and nutritional qualities.

Highlighting the potential health benefits and high nutritional value of millet, Bhusal emphasized Nepal's willingness to join hands with India in launching a campaign to increase millet consumption, following India's initiative to declare 2023 as the International Year of Millets at the United Nations. This proposal received support from 72 countries, and the United Nations General Assembly officially declared 2023 as the International Year of Millets. In Kathmandu, the Indian Embassy organized a program in collaboration with Nepal's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock as part of the celebrations for the International Year of Millets 2023.

During the program, Navin Srivastava, the Indian Ambassador to Nepal, stressed the importance of cooperation between India and Nepal in the agricultural sector to explore millet production and its commercial potential. He said, 'Millet can provide solutions to climate change and global food security challenges.'
Experts in the field of nutrition highlighted the nutritional qualities of millets and underscored the need to increase millet production on a large scale to identify vast opportunities in the export market.