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    A dimension within Promoting Local Nutrition

    Local Food Systems

    This theme highlights the integration of local food, especially millet, into PDS and mid-day meal programs to enhance food security and nutrition.

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    The Voice Summary

    Nearby, the main topics are the inclusion of traditional and forest-based foods in public distribution systems (PDS) and midday meals. Many citizens are requesting the government to incorporate items like millets, mahua laddoos, and various local grains and fruits into these programs. These submissions highlight a strong desire for increased access to nutritious, locally sourced food 💡, demonstrating a community actively seeking ways to improve public health and support local produce. The consistent call for incorporating these items suggests a community ready to embrace and benefit from diversified food initiatives 🛣️. By integrating these nutritious options, the government can significantly enhance the nutritional intake for children and the wider population 💧.

    Dominant Themes

    Inclusion of Millets in PDS/Midday Meals
    Inclusion of Forest-Based Foods in PDS/Midday Meals
    Promotion of Traditional Grains
    Mahua Laddoos in Midday Meals
    Nutritional Improvement through Local Foods

    Actionable Recommendations

    • 🌿 🍎 🍚Integrate a diverse range of locally available and forest-based nutritious foods, such as millets, mahua laddoos, and seasonal fruits, into the PDS and midday meal schemes.
    • 📣 💡 💪Launch a promotional campaign highlighting the nutritional benefits of traditional grains and forest produce to encourage their consumption and integration into daily diets.
    • 📊 🔍 ✅Conduct a feasibility study to identify and source sustainable, nutritious forest products and traditional grains for wider distribution through PDS and school meal programs.
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    AI-synthesised pieces woven from many community voices on this theme. They may contain errors or interpretation — they're a reflection of the stories, not a record of fact.

    🧭 Action recipe· Forest and Food Heritage

    Feed Our Children Our Own Foods

    Our community advocates for the integration of traditional, locally sourced foods into public programs to nourish children and preserve cultural heritage for future generations.

    🧭 Action recipe· Forest and Food Heritage

    Nourish Futures with Our Native Grains

    To preserve our health and culture, we advocate for the inclusion of native, nutritious grains in public food programs.

    🧭 Action recipe· Forest and Food Heritage

    Bring Traditional Millets to School Meals

    By incorporating local, traditional grains like ragi and millet into school lunch programs, communities can significantly improve children's health and well-being.

    📖 Story· Harvesting Future Hopes

    A Community's Call for Growth and Support

    Residents of Maradipanga voice their daily struggles and collective aspirations for government assistance to cultivate better livelihoods, restore their environment, and build a more developed future.

    Where these voices come from

    ODISHA, INDIA56 voices MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA22 voices JHARKHAND, INDIA6 voices CHHATTISGARH, INDIA6 voices RAJASTHAN, INDIA5 voices UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA3 voices

    Voices here

    🗣️ 🍚 📦

    I am informing the government that Kendu, Char, Mahua, and Mahua laddoos should be given to us in the midday meal, and also through the PDS system.

    — Priti majhi

    🤝 🍬 🍽️

    The government should promote laddoos made from Mahapul in the Public Distribution System (PDS) and mid-day meals.

    — SUKDEV HEMBRAM

    🏛️ ➕ 🌾

    The government should include millet in PDS or mid-day meals.

    — Kusha Mahakud

    🗣️ 🍽️ 😋

    We are informing the government that we should be given Kendu char, Mahua, and Mahua laddus in our mid-day meal. PDA PDA.

    — Priti majhi

    🏛️ 🌸 🍽️

    The government should promote Maha Phool laddoos in midday meals.

    — SUKDEV HEMBRAM · Beltnar, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand

    🫘 🏛️ 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

    Chickpea and Mahua food items should be provided by the government under PDS.

    — bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

    🌾 🤲 💪

    Millet food should be included in PDS and mid-day meals.

    — Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

    🌾 🍽️ 💪

    Millet food should be included in PDS and midday meals.

    — Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

    🗣️ 🍬 🍽️

    Gulji Mania, I am informing the government that Mahua laddoo should be made and included in the midday meal.

    — Priti majhi

    🌾 🍽️ 👍

    Millet should be included in PDS and mid-day meals.

    — Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

    🏛️ 🌳 💰

    Government, please confirm with your people. Provide food and local forest food for the people under the PDS mid-day meal scheme. If it is provided from your side, the people will be able to sell it.

    — Kanaka Pradhan · Balangir, Odisha

    🌰 🤲 🍽️

    Include forest-based food items such as Mahua laddoo, Chaar laddoo, Fuljhi, etc., in the Public Distribution System (PDS) and mid-day meals.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌾 🤲 🍽️

    While promoting our traditional grains, the government should also include them in PDS and mid-day meals.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh

    🌾 📦 💪

    The traditional nutritious food of our community like Kodo, Kutki, maize, sorghum, wheat, arhar, sesame, masoor, moong, chana, batla etc. should be included in PDS (Public Distribution System) and mid-day meals, and the government should promote them.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    🌽 🤝 💪

    The government should promote the most nutritious foods easily available in our region, such as kodo, kutki, maize, along with tur dal, gram, and horse gram lentils, and include them in PDS and mid-day meals.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    🌳 🤲 🍚

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

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌾 🍽️ 👍

    Request to the government: It would be good if food prepared from ragi/millet is provided in PDS midday meals.

    — PRADEEP KUMAR KANHAR · Boudh, Odisha

    🌾 🍽️ 🤝

    Our traditional crops like Kodo, Kutki, maize, Rahar, Kurthi, chickpeas, and other pulses should also be given in schools and Anganwadi centers under the Midday Meal Scheme, and they should also be promoted by the government.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh

    🌾 🤲 💪

    Nutritious food items like ragi should be introduced in mid-day meals and PDS.

    — Sunil oraon · Gumla, Jharkhand

    🏛️ 🤲 🍎

    The government should include locally available fruits, papaya, and other items in PDS.

    — SHIVRAM YADAV · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    🌳 🍬 🍽️

    Request to the government: It would be good if forest products like Mahua, Char, Kendu, and Kaku were made into ladoos and provided in the BDS mid-day meal.

    — Priti majhi

    🌾 🥣 🚚

    Amla pickle should be included in mid-day meals among local forest food items, and traditional produce like Kodo, Kutki, maize, and pulses like Kurthi, Moong, Chana, and Rahar should be included in PDS.

    — Rupesh Maravi

    🌾 🍽️ 🌟

    Kodo, kutki, maize, and sorghum porridge, and also indigenous pulses, should be included in the midday meal, and it would be very good if the government promotes them.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh

    🌳 🍽️ 📈

    Local forest food is available. It should be included through PDS and in meals, and the government should promote it.

    — Laxmanlal

    🌾 🤲 🍽️

    Kodo, kutki, maize porridge, along with horse gram, moong, and rahat dal, should be given in mid-day meals and also included in the PDS.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    🌾 🍽️ 💪

    Our traditional nutritious food like kodo, kutki, maize, sorghum, wheat, etc., as khichdi and dalia should be given in mid-day meals, and it would be great if the government also includes such grains in PDS.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    🌾 🏫 👍

    Yes, our local foods like Kodo, Kutki, and wheat porridge should also be included in the midday meal, and the government should also promote similar food items.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    🍚 ➕ 🌾

    Yes, start. The subsidized food that the government is giving us. Yes, the government is giving through PDS. What else would be good if added to that? Millet. Millet. Tell me the name. If they give millet, I will say. Aruna Chandrika Pradhan.

    — Dillip pujari · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

    🌳 🍬 👧

    Request to the government: It would be good if forest products like Mahul, Chara, Kina, and Kaku were made into ladoos and given in BDS midday meals.

    — Priti majhi

    🍠 🏛️ 🍽️

    Forest yam is a nutritious food. So, we request the government to add it to PDS and Midday Meal programs.

    — Sita Behera · Dashapalla, Nayagarh, Odisha

    🌾 🥣 🏛️

    If millet, maize, cashew, pigeon pea, Judung, etc., are included as forest foods in the mid-day meal, it will encourage the government.

    — Samana Mandangi

    🏛️ 🍎 🌳

    The government should add seasonal fruits like Jamun, mango, ber, katola vegetable, Vegri Doda vegetable, indigenous mushrooms, bael fruit, mahua kheer, Kalthiya ki ghugri, kodo, batti, bhadi (little millet), etc., to forest food items in PDS and MDM.

    — Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

    🌾 🥣 ✨

    Our traditional crops like Kodo, Kutki, Maize, Jowar, Bajra, Kangni, Rahar, and Kurthi should be included in mid-day meals and the PDS, and if the government also promotes them, it can definitely happen.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh

    🌿 🍽️ 🏛️

    In my village, there are many wild fruits and vegetables that should be included in school meals, in the midday meal. This is a request to the government.

    — Jaya · Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh

    🌾 🤝 💪

    Our native little millet, kodo, maize, sorghum, arhar, urad, kulthi, moong, and soybean should also be included in the government's ration card and in our school's midday meal.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    🗣️ 🍬 🧒

    I saw this on mobile. I am informing the government that 'Mahu ko Laddoo Kakoo' should be initiated, and 'Gulji Mania Laddoo' should be included in the mid-day meal program.

    — Priti majhi

    🌳 🍲 🧒

    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

    🌱 🍽️ 💪

    The most nutritious locally available moong dal and urad dal should be included in PDS and mid-day meals.

    — AbhiLL Ipsa

    🍽️ 🌾 💪

    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

    🏛️ 🌳 🍽️

    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

    📣PDS Food Promotion30 voices
    🍲Midday Meals & Forest Foods29 voices
    🏞️Local Foods for Security28 voices
    🌳School Food & Forest Bounty25 voices
    🍎Child Nutrition Focus24 voices
    🌾Millet in Public Food14 voices