Women farmers to show G20 leaders' spouses how millet farming is done: MoS Shobha Karandlaje
women farmers would soon arrive at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute and show the spouses of G20 leaders how millet farming is done on September 9.
India has got the opportunity for the first time to organize G20 events in the different corners of the country...The spouses of G20 leaders will come to the Institute of Agricultural Research. We are going to show them how we moved forward in agriculture," she said.
Karandlaje further stated that after receiving the spouses of G20 leaders here, we will take them to the millet fields.
«First, we will receive them here and then we'll go to the millet fields and show them how we are growing millet,» she said.
India is the leading country to export millet to the world, she added.
Farmers from 10 major millet exporting states will hold conversations with the G20 leader's spouse.
«We have invited farmers from 10 major millet-producing and exporting states to have conversations with the G20 leader's spouse,» she added.
The women farmers have been invited from far-flung villages in 11 millet-producing states — Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Assam.
Further, Karandlaje praised that the G20 Summit is going to be held under Prime Minister Modi's leadership.
Moreover, she said that live cooking would be there, and we would prepare meals made from millet.
