New Delhi (India), Hybrid Event, 04/05/2023 - 11/03/2023
Mera Millet Magic is a joint initiative of the Celiac Society of India, Asha Chandra Welfare Consultancy & shOObh Group Welfare Society.
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1. ‘SHREE ANNA’ or common millet has been cultivated for 7,000 years. Nutrition-rich, drought resistant, grown in poor soils, millets are a relatively short-season crop, capable of producing seeds from 60 days to 100 days after planting.
2. Millets are the game-changer that could transform your health, and your mind and build your resistance to lifestyle and other diseases.
3. So why did we replace our millet-based diets with alternate grains? Tracing its history in India, Mridula Ramesh writes that millets were the staple diet of millions. In 1877, in search of profits, the colonial powers ‘coerced farmers to shift from millet cultivation to cash crops which were unsuited to India’s rainfall and inedible in a drought’. When the rains began to fail, millions left their withered fields in the Madras Presidency, to beg for food.
4. In 130 countries in Asia and Africa mostly marginal farmers cultivate millets. Millet has the potential to lift farmers out of poverty, fight climate change and improve the nutrition status of G77 now extending to 133 member states, which contribute towards 80 percent of the global population.
5. In recognition of this fact, 2023 was announced by the United Nations as the International Year of the Millets.
6. To position India as the Vishwaguru, Mera Millet Magic is the Grain-Changer Game-Changer to increase the use of millets in diets to fight burgeoning lifestyles and other diseases.
7. Joining hands for this not-for-profit Mera Millet Magic is the iconic founder of Whole Foods, Ishi Khosla heading Celiac Society; social entrepreneur Asha Chandra, who spearheaded programs nationally and at the United Nations for over 25 years at an organization founded in 1929 under the inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi; and Bharat Gauba, the doyen of strategies & tie-ups for over 25 years heading his organization which is affiliated with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). 8. Climb aboard on this exciting journey to revitalize your mind and body. Jaisa Anna - Vaisa Mann - Jaisa Anna - Vaisa Tann.
shOObh Group is a constellation of communities. shOObh Group Welfare Society is a non-profit community-based organization working in the field of community service and action, education, health, personal growth and improvement, social welfare, and self-help for the disadvantaged. shOObh programs are designed to educate people on human welfare issues. In all of shOObh Group projects different art forms are used to convey the message. shOObh Group is working on different social issues. The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has granted Special Consultative Status to shOObh.
