Lahiri Bai: work “Food Protection” living in Dindori district of Madhya Pradesh,
Lahiri Bai, a woman of the Baiga tribe (tribals) living in Dindori district of Madhya Pradesh, has done a great job in the field of “food preservation”, PM Modi’s eyes were seen when Doordarshan News showed Lahiri Bai’s efforts on TV last days. also fell on him. Prime Minister Narendra Modi not only praised the effort made by a tribal woman but also tweeted that Lahiri Bai’s efforts would encourage others as well.
Tagging Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tweet, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan tweeted – Madhya Pradesh’s pride has increased because of the unprecedented work that sister Lahiri Bai is doing for the protection of coarse grains “Shri Anna”. Under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the efforts to promote “Shri Anna” at the international level are getting success. Hearty congratulations to the Prime Minister.
Lahiri Bai of Baiga tribe is a resident of village Silpadi in Dindori district. She has been engaged in the conservation of millets like Kutki, Sawa, Kodo, Katki for more than a decade. They have storage of seeds of many types of coarse grains. His two-room house, built from the Rural Housing Scheme, is known in the surrounding area as a millet seed store. Lahiri Bai says that “To save the seeds which had become extinct in our place, we brought seeds from other villages and produced them, distributed the seeds to the farmers, the farmers sowed them in small areas of their fields and the crop arrived. But We took it back from them. We now have the seeds of many extinct crops.”
It is noteworthy that the United Nations has declared the year 2023 as Millet Year. Coarse grains give good yield in less irrigation and are full of nutrition. They also have an important role in streamlining the crop cycle and empowering small farmers financially. In Madhya Pradesh, work is being done in the direction of production and conservation of coarse grains.
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