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    The cloudNutrition & Food SecurityMahua for Children's HealthTraditional Foods in SchoolsMahua in School MealsFood Security & PDS
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    Food Security & PDS

    This theme connects child nutrition, school meals, and forest products with broader food security initiatives and public distribution systems.

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    In your area, there's a strong, unified voice advocating for the integration of nutritious local forest products and traditional foods into school Mid-Day Meals (MDM) and the Public Distribution System (PDS) 🍎. Citizens highlight that current meal programs could be significantly enhanced by incorporating items like Mahua, Kendu, Char, various yams, and millets, which are abundant and highly beneficial for children's physical and mental development 🧠. This proactive approach aims to combat malnutrition effectively and leverage indigenous dietary wisdom for healthier communities. Citizens are keen on seeing these locally-sourced, vitamin-rich foods become a staple, moving away from potentially less nutritious processed alternatives. 💡

    Dominant Themes

    Integration of Forest Produce in Mid-Day Meals & PDS
    Enhancing Child Nutrition and Development
    Promotion of Traditional and Local Foods
    Utilization of Specific Wild Edibles (Mahua, Kendu, Millets, Tubers)

    Actionable Recommendations

    • 🌱 🍽 🏫Initiate a pilot program to systematically include locally sourced, nutrient-rich forest produce and traditional grains into the school Mid-Day Meal and PDS schemes.
    • 📚 💡 👨Develop educational materials and awareness campaigns for parents, teachers, and children on the nutritional benefits and traditional preparation methods of these indigenous foods.
    • 🤝 🌳 ⚙Establish local supply chains and community-based processing units to ensure sustainable sourcing and efficient preparation of forest products for MDM and PDS programs.

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    🌳 👧 🧠

    If we talk about the most nutritious food, if the government provides our forest products like Mahul, Char, and Kendu as food in MDM (Mid-Day Meal), then children will eat it and become intelligent.

    — Priti majhi

    🌳 🥣 🧠

    Speaking of the most nutritious food, if the government provides our forest products like Mahul, Char, Kendu, etc., as food in MDM (Mid-Day Meal), children will eat them and become intelligent/wise.

    — Priti majhi

    🧒 🥣 💪

    Nutritious forest produce, such as millet, will be provided to children as part of their midday meals through the Public Distribution System.

    — Padmini Bhoi

    🌳 🤲 👧

    If the government distributes forest foods like Mahua, Kendu, and other such forest produce to children as PDS food.

    — Priti majhi

    🌳 🏫 💪

    Including food items like mahua ladoo made from mahua found in our forests in the school's midday meal can provide nutritious food to children.

    — Anjana Khadia · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌳 👶 🍽️

    Fruits obtained from the forest are also important for the physical and mental development of children and for providing nutrition; the government should include them as traditional food items in school mid-day meals.

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    — Anil Pargi · Maliya Dokar, Banswara, Rajasthan

    🌿 🏫 🍎

    Including Mahula laddus made from Mahula found in our forests in school's midday meals can provide nutritious food to children.

    — Anjana Khadia · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌰 🎒 💪

    If forest-based foods like Mahua, Chironji, and Kendu were prepared and given to our school children in their Mid-Day Meal, it would be beneficial.

    — Priti majhi

    🌳 🍽️ 🧒

    The most nutritious locally edible forest food items should be included in PDF mid-day meals, and the government wants to promote their nutritional value for children.

    — Laxmanlal

    🏛️ 🌳 🧒

    If the government distributes forest foods like Mahua, Kendu, Chaar, etc. as PDS food to children.

    — Priti majhi

    🌰 🏫 💪

    If the nutritious 'char laddoo' made from Mahua found in our forests is included in the school's mid-day meal, children will be nourished.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🧒 🌳 🏫

    Give children forest food or good food available from the forest in school.

    — Puspanjali Nag

    🌳 🍽️ 💪

    Including ladoos made from Mahua, a food found in our forests, in the school's mid-day meal will be nutritious for children.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌳 🍎 🧑‍🎓

    Forest produce fruits found in the forest like Kendu, Char, and Mahula contain abundant nutritious food. It would be good to include them in students' mid-day meals.

    — Kumudini Chhanchan · Bhojpur, Sambalpur, Odisha

    🌳 🍽️ 💪

    Tungemasha, potatoes, and Panikonda are all found in the forest. If Panikonda is included in PDS and mid-day meals, then children will remain healthy by getting nutritious food.

    — Basanti · Dashapalla, Nayagarh, Odisha

    🌳 🍎 🍽️

    Forest fruits like Kendu, Char, and Mahul, found in the forest, contain abundant nutritious food. It would be good to include them in the mid-day meals of students.

    — DASHARATH SINGH · Jamunkira, Sambalpur, Odisha

    🌳 🍽️ 💪

    Forest fruits like Kendu, Char, and Mahul, found in the forest, are rich in nutrition. It would be beneficial to include them in students' midday meals.

    — Kumudini Chhanchan · Bhojpur, Sambalpur, Odisha

    🌳 🍽️ ✨

    Should forest-based nutritious food from PDS be provided to children in mid-day meals or not? Yes, it should be. Ber (Indian jujube) and Tendu (Indian ebony) are available. And many other opportunities have arisen.

    — Jeevan Kumar

    🍎 🤲 🧒

    It would be good if the government distributes the four valuable Kendu fruits found in the forest as food for children in areas where midday meals are not available.

    — Priti majhi

    🌳 🧒 🍽️

    It would be beneficial if forest fruits, roots, Char, Dumer, and Kuddu fruits are given to school children as part of the midday meals provided in schools. Whatever term applies.

    — Parikshit Majhi · Balangir, Odisha

    🌸 🏛️ 🥣

    Among forest products, Mahua is also a nutritious food. It would be good if the government utilizes this Mahua in various ways and provides it in school mid-day meals.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌳 🍽️ 💪

    If forest foods like Char, Mahua, Kendu, Mango, and Jam are added to PDS and mid-day meals, consumers will get nutritious food.

    — RINA BEHERA · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌳 🍎 🧑‍🎓

    Forest-produced fruits like Kendu, Char, and Mahula, found in the forest, contain a large amount of nutritious food. It would be excellent to include these in students' midday meals.

    — Kumudini Chhanchan · Bhojpur, Sambalpur, Odisha

    🌳 🍲 🧒

    It would be good if forest products like Mahua, Chaar, and Kendu were included in the preparation of our children's Mid-Day Meal.

    — Priti majhi

    🌾 🧒 🌱

    Hemant Sha village Nilaji: Forest-based millets and Gurji traditional food should be included in PDS and mid-day meals. This will help in the mental and physical development of children.

    — RUDRA PRASAD BAG · Jagānpadar, Nuapada, Odisha

    🍽️ 🌾 💪

    Sir, what kind of nutritious food should the government provide us through PDS? And in schools, definitely in the midday meal, and millet, root vegetables, then forest produce, which are fruits, if these are definitely given to the students as encouragement, then the children's malnutrition can be eliminated.

    — Dillip pujari · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

    🧒 🌳 🍽️

    If food made from mahua found in our forests and food from charla are included in the school's midday meal for children.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌿 🤲 💪

    The roots, herbs, and water chestnuts found in the forest are very vitamin-rich and nutritious foods. It would be good if these were provided in PDS and as midday meals for school children.

    — Sushama Digal · Dashapalla, Nayagarh, Odisha

    🏛️ 🌳 🍽️

    It would be good if the government provides forest foods like honey, Chaar, and Kendu as food in the midday meal.

    — Priti majhi

    🌳 🎁 🧒

    It would be good if the government distributed the four Kendu, which are heroes and a food source in the forest, to children as supplementary food for their midday meals.

    — Priti majhi · SKIP NO LOCATION

    🌳 🍲 🧒

    It would be good if the government provides forest foods like Mahua, Chhar, and Kendu as food in the MDM (Mid-Day Meal scheme).

    — Priti majhi

    🌳 🍽️ 💪

    Mahua flowers and other foods obtained from the forest are very nutritious. Therefore, it is appropriate to include these foods in PDS or mid-day meals.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🏫 🍎 💪

    If food made from Mahua is given in schools, children will be able to get nutritious food.

    — Anjana Khadia · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌳 🤲 🍲

    It would be good if forest products like Mahula, Char, and Kendu were provided in mid-day meals through PDS.

    — Priti majhi

    🌳 🥣 🍎

    In schools where midday meals are provided, if fodder from the forest is brought and made into laddus, nutritious food can be obtained.

    — Parikshit Majhi

    🌳 🤲 🍚

    To include forest-based foods like Mahua ladoo, Char ladoo, Phuljhi, etc., in PDS and midday meals.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🏛️ 🌳 🍽️

    It would be good if the government promoted these most nutritious forest foods like bananas, karadi, and kandhamula in PDS (Public Distribution System) and mid-day meals.

    — anita khora · Sutipadar, Koraput, Odisha

    🌳 🏫 🍽️

    It would be appropriate if forest products like Mahua ladoo are prepared and served as part of the Mid-Day Meal in schools.

    — Priti majhi

    🎁 🌳 😋

    If the government provides forest food like honey and some other forest produce as part of the midday meal, it would be good.

    — Priti majhi

    🍎 🍽️ 💪

    Keshav Lal Nanoma stated that wild fruits like Timru and Custard Apple should be given in the mid-day meal for the nutritious diet of children.

    — narayanlalbaranda5@gmail.com · Jhapa, Dungarpur, Rajasthan

    🍎Forest & School Nutrition55 voices
    🏫Local School Meals30 voices
    💪Preventing Malnutrition26 voices
    🌳Mahua & Child Health22 voices
    🍲Traditional Child Nutrition13 voices
    🌾Ragi, Child & Maternal Health4 voices
    ODISHA, INDIA87 voices
    MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA7 voices
    RAJASTHAN, INDIA4 voices
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