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Jammu And Kashmir Sets Up Special Food Stall “Millet Hub” For Foreign Delegates During G20 Summit

The Jammu and Kashmir government has set up a special food stall “Millet Hub” for foreign delegates at Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC) in Srinagar. Under India’s presidency, Srinagar is currently hosting the third G20 Working Group Meeting. The United Nations General Assembly at the initiative of India declared 2023 as the International Year of Millets in March 2021.

Millets are the first crops to be cultivated in Asia and Africa. Later it was adopted as an important food source for advanced civilisations around the world. The government set up a special food stall titled “Millet Food” during the G20 summit that has been started yesterday at SKICC on the banks of dal lake. This initiative was the joint venture of the Jammu and Kashmir rural livelihood mission (JKRLM) and Grass Root Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN) aimed to serve guests millet food and provide a proper platform to the Entrepreneurs of self-help groups so that they can set up thier own units in future.

J-K Lt Governor Manoj Sinha, Union Ministers G Kishan Reddy, Dr Jitendra Singh and G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant participated in today’s session.

Source ANI

Bharat Express English

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