{"id":10542,"date":"2023-04-19T19:37:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T14:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goasamachar.in\/?p=10542"},"modified":"2023-04-19T19:40:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T14:10:14","slug":"magic-of-millets-for-rural-women-self-help-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goasamachar.in\/?p=10542","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Magic of Millets\u2019 for Rural Women Self Help Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seminar And Competition Organised <\/span><\/i><\/b>By WICCI Rural Tourism Council Goa\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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Panaji :WICCI Rural Tourism Council Goa organised a Seminar & Competition titled \u2018Magic of Millets\u2019\u00a0<\/strong>for Rural Women SHGs in Goa, as a joint initiative with\u00a0Goa State Rural Livelihood Mission (GSRLM) & Rotary Club of Panaji Riviera, at the Directorate of Art & Culture, Patto .<\/p>\n

3 women from SHGs – Jyoti Palekar, Shobhavati Velip and Poornima Sawant won the first, second and third prizes respectively as part of the Competition among the women SHGs for the best-cooked dish with millets, for which prizes were sponsored by the Rotary Club of Panaji Riviera. The competition was judged by Sunetra Talaulikar, ICAR-KVK, Chef Ajinkya, Goa Marriott Resort & Spa and Mini Ribeiro, State President, WICCI Rural Tourism Council Goa<\/p>\n

Speaking on the occasion,\u00a0Mini Ribeiro, State President, WICCI Rural Tourism Council Goa\u00a0said, \u201cAs part of the International Year of the Millets initiative, WICCI Rural Tourism Council Goa, is organising a Seminar and Competition for Rural Women SHGs in Goa, titled, \u2018Magic of Millets<\/strong>,\u2019 to spread awareness about the importance of Millets in our daily diets and to encourage more women to cook with these at home. This is part of\u00a0our key focus areas of community outreach in the spirit of knowledge-sharing and building inspiration toward empowering women.\u00a0Through this Seminar, we hope to enable the women SHGs to spread the message of millets in Goa villages and get more homes to start using these for better health.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sessions included, \u2018The Importance of Millets in Our Diet\u2019 by Sunetra Talaulikar, ICAR- KVK, North Goa and \u2018My Journey as an Entrepreneur working with Millets\u2019 by Sucheta Bhandare, Founder, Earth Poorna.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/strong>Millets are the synonym to healthy eating and thus, this awareness programme, will enable the SHGs to connect to their roots when they used to cook healthy meals with millets such as Nachino, Bajra, Jowar,\u201d explained\u00a0Bhushan k. Savaikar, CEO, Goa State Rural Livelihood Mission (GSRLM).<\/p>\n

Rtn. Raghavendra Shetiya, President, Rotary Club of Panaji Riviera, said, \u201c<\/strong>As Rotarians, we are called upon to use our skills and expertise to serve a community. Vocational service, is the essence of Rotary and serves as the foundation from which we serve our communities around the world. Taking this objective forward, we, at Rotary Club of Panaji Riviera have partnered with the WICCI Rural Tourism Council Goa and the\u00a0Goa State Rural Livelihood Mission (GSRLM),\u00a0<\/strong>for\u00a0a seminar, \u2018Magic of Millets\u2019 for women Self Help Groups, which will help popularise the use of Millets in rural households through their involvement. It will also help in training them to use Millets in products which can be sold to be a source of livelihood for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

A National Business Chamber for Women, Women\u2019s Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry,\u00a0(WICCI)<\/strong>\u00a0boosts and builds women\u2019s entrepreneurship and businesses through greater engagement with government, institutions, global trade and networks.\u00a0WICCI<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and its manifold multi-sectoral and sector-specific Councils at International, National, Regional, State and City levels, suggest from time to time concrete steps and recommendations to relevant government authorities, engage in community outreach and collaborate with a variety of institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seminar And Competition Organised By WICCI Rural Tourism Council Goa\u00a0 \u00a0 Panaji :WICCI Rural Tourism Council Goa organised a Seminar & Competition titled \u2018Magic of Millets\u2019\u00a0for Rural Women SHGs in Goa, as a joint initiative with\u00a0Goa State Rural Livelihood Mission (GSRLM) & Rotary Club of Panaji Riviera, at the Directorate of Art & Culture, Patto […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[82,59,60,49,85,86],"class_list":["post-10542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goa-dairy","tag-g20goa","tag-g20india","tag-g20india-g20goa","tag-goa","tag-international-year-of-millets","tag-wicci"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goasamachar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goasamachar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goasamachar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goasamachar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goasamachar.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goasamachar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10546,"href":"https:\/\/goasamachar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions\/10546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goasamachar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goasamachar.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goasamachar.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goasamachar.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}