Firozabad, 22 December (Hindustan Reporter). Shri Anna Mahotsav concluded with Millets Road Show at Udyan Nursery Civil Lines Dabarai on Sunday. Millets Road Show was flagged off by Deputy Agriculture Director Satyendra Pratap Singh and District Agriculture Officer Sumit Kumar Chauhan.
In the Millets Road Show, farmers along with Anganwadi women and employees of the Agriculture Department took out a bike rally and a foot march along with the Millets Awareness Rath and came from Police Lines via the bypass via Ashabad, Jain Temple and ended at Vikas Bhawan.
Deputy Agriculture Director, while addressing the farmers, said that Shri Anna has been an integral part of Indian culture and tradition, to include it in today’s modern lifestyle, the Agriculture Department is organizing Millets Fair, Millets Recipe Development Program and Road Show for Millets Awareness. Is being done by. He said that coarse grains contain more fiber, vitamin B12, iron, zinc and calcium than wheat and rice, due to which various types of diseases can be avoided. On this occasion, District Agriculture Officer Sumit Kumar Chauhan informed the farmers about the departmental schemes. Also provided information about crop insurance scheme and farmer registry campaign. Dr. Omkar Singh, in-charge of Agricultural Science Center Firozabad, gave information about the prevention of animals from foot and mouth disease.
Dr. Tej Prakash Singh, former chairman of Agricultural Science Center Firozabad, told about the cultivation of jowar, millet, ragi, sawa and kodo. Dr. Jitendra Kumar Singh said that diseases like diabetes, obesity, cholesterol, celiac disease can be treated by eating jowar, millet, ragi and sava. Information was given about the lab established by JC Sharma from Agra for testing millets products. On this occasion, Basic Education Officer Ashish Pandey visited various places and tasted various recipes of Shri Anna. Cultural presentation by the students of Kasturba Gandhi Girls Inter College on this occasion. Provided. Along with this, an agricultural quiz was organized whose winners were given millets products. Certificates were distributed to the participants who set up stalls in the program. In the program, Land Conservation Officer Shailendra Kumar, Senior Technical Assistant Tanushree Pandey, Brijesh Kumar Singh, Pankaj Kumar Singh, Jitendra Kumar Singh, Raman Dev Sharma, Rajesh Yadav, Sarvesh Kumar Singh, A large number of farmers and women including NFSM scheme advisors Rakesh Kumar and Akhilesh Chaudhary participated.
