After day-long deliberations and meet-ups, delegates attending the G20 Summit in New Delhi will be relishing India’s culinary delicacies, including dishes made of millets. In view of the United Nations General Assembly accepting India’s proposal for the International Year of Millets 2023, world leaders, representatives of member states are already being served with millets-based dishes at the hotels they are staying.
Millets have several health benefits, as well as, come with environmental impact. To introduce the significance of this crop and dishes made out of it, two tribal women from Odisha – Raimati Ghiuria and Subasa Mohanta – will share insights at the dinner programme which will be hosted by President Droupadi Murmu.
Both women took up millet farming at a time when many were unwilling to venture into it. They will showcase how farming the crop has helped change the life of many tribal women.
