Bhubaneswar, Jan 4 (KNN) The Odisha government on Tuesday inked a pact with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), to take up various activities to promote millets globally.

As the UN general assembly has declared 2023 as the international year of millets (IYOM), Odisha Millets Mission (OMM) has planned to organise a series of activities to commemorate the opportunity and spread the importance and benefits of millets across the globe.

Under this partnership, FICCI will provide all necessary end-to-end help, support and services for the events related to IYOM 2023 planned this year.

The Agriculture and Farmers’ Empowerment department of the Odisha government in return will facilitate necessary support to FICCI in terms of approvals, advisory and resources for the events, including review and monitoring of activities regularly.

The MoU was signed by Director of agriculture and food production Prem Chandra Choudhary and assistant secretary general of FICCI Mousumi Ghose in the presence of Agriculture Minister Ranendra Pratap Swain and principal secretary Arabinda Kumar Padhee.

As per reports, the federation for the promotion of the millets will join hands with several agencies including event management, knowledge and research partners.

Launched in 2017, OMM is a flagship programme of the Odisha government to revive millets in farms and on plates. Moved by the mission benefits, the Centre has already asked all states to adopt the Odisha model for the promotion of millets.

A task force has been set up at the national level to understand the framework of the OMM and to revise the national mission on millets.  (KNN Bureau)