Shri Anna: Medium of overall development

Abstract

In the global market, coarse grains are known as Shri Anna in India due to their nutritional richness. Millets is a super food. Coarse grains grown in India include pearl millet, jowar, finger millet and minor millets like proso millet, kodo millet, small millet, Kangni millet, browntop millet, barnyard millet, chaulai and buckwheat, (millet, ragi, buckwheat, buckwheat, Cheena, Sanwa, Kodo) etc. The year 2023 has been declared the International Year of Millets. India is the largest producer of millets i.e. Sri Anna. Today, India has the potential to lead the world as a major country in the global supply chain of millets and its value-added products. In this sequence, the Central Government has entrusted the responsibility to the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) to contribute and promote the 'International Nutritious Grains Year-2023' at the global level. We have to become the leader in production, consumption and export of coarse grains.