A seminar was held in Navsari with the aim of making people shift from heavy crops like wheat to grain crops like jowar, millet, and Nagari.

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A Seminar Was Held In Navsari With The Aim Of Making People Shift From Heavy Crops Like Wheat To Cereal Crops Like Jowar, Bajri, and Nagri. A seminar was held in Navsari with the aim of making people shift from heavy crops like wheat to cereal crops like Jowar, Bajri, and Nagri.Navsari

A joint initiative of Navsari Kisan Morcha and the municipality organized a seminar to create awareness about light grain crops. Farmers, the BJP organization, and the women’s team of Mahila Morcha were present.

Indian people used to eat traditional grains, but with the changing daily life, heavy grains including wheat and flour were added. So health-related problems have arisen. A collective awareness campaign has been launched across the country to get Indian families to switch to light grains. Among the light-grain crops are kodara, nagli, bunti, vari, kang, samo etc. These crops are grown mostly in hilly tribal areas of South Gujarat and Panchmahal and Vadodara districts. These crops are the staple food of tribal people. Nagli, Vari, Bunti, Kodara have almost the same farming practices, light pulses are mainly eaten in tribal areas but people are being made aware of its use in urban life as well.

“The United Nations (UN) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched this campaign to launch the International Year of Nutritious Grains 2023. India’s proposal to observe the International Year of Nutrient Cereals was supported. Nutrient grains have a proud history as one of the earliest crops cultivated by humans, having been an important source of food in the past. But the need of the hour is to understand it in the seminar on making food choices for the future.

Nutritious grains matter to the consumer, the farmer, and the climate. It is a rich source of balanced nutrition for consumers. It benefits farmers and our environment, as it requires less water and is compatible with the natural ways of farming the land and the diversity in our food. If agriculture becomes a monoculture. So it affects our health of us and our soils. Nutritious grains are a good way to increase agriculture and dietary diversity. Nutrient grains are prehistoric grains that have been cultivated since ancient times. which have special nutritional properties and special agronomic characteristics (suitable for drought-resistant and semi-arid regions). Each nutritious grain contains various nutrients like calcium, carbohydrates, iron, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, etc. Moreover, they also contain vitamins like folic acid, vitamin B6, 8-carotene, and abundant amounts of niacin.

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