The world needs to understand the gravity of waste. An estimated $600 billion worth of food is lost during or just after harvest. While billions go hungry, one of the key challenges in today’s globalized and rapidly urbanizing world is malnutrition.
In the last few years, India has witnessed an impressive progress in the start-up front with the count touching 72,993 as on 30th June 2022. Out of this, 1495 start-ups are focusing specifically on agriculture and allied sectors aspiring to solve some of the greatest challenges in the context of food and nutrition, food safety, climate-friendly agriculture, and ecological sustainability.
Samunnati is delighted to partner with SBI, India’s largest commercial bank, for a Co-Lending partnership to enhance funding to the Farmer Producer Organization (FPO).
Millets are power-packed, nutrition-dense foods that are excellent sources of a wide range of macro and micronutrients, protein, dietary fibre, and essential amino acids. Millets are proven to boost growth in children and adolescents when consumed regularly. These ‘Nutricereals’ play a critical role in and significantly contribute to combating malnutrition.
The World Food Safety Day is celebrated every year on 7th of June with the theme “Safer food, better health” and the objective to draw attention and mobilize action to prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks and improve human health.
Millets are one of the most nutrition-dense foods and are excellent sources of a wide range of macro & micronutrients (Phosphorus, Magnesium, Folate, Iron), about 7-12% protein, 15-20% dietary fiber, and essential amino acids. A research study by ICRISAT on the nutritional benefits of millets have found that these “smart foods” can boost growth in children and adolescents by 26 – 39% when they replace rice in standard meals. The results suggest that millets can significantly contribute to overcoming malnutrition. So, these ‘Nutricereals’ must be given their due credits in augmenting nutritional security of the nation.
Agriculture has been pivotal to India since the dawn of its civilization. With one of the largest arable lands complemented by favorable climatic conditions, it enables the subcontinent to produce a variety of crops.
Tamil Nadu-based Samunnati has recently launched the Annadata Suraksha Abhiyaan, a dedicated crowd-sourcing campaign driven via Samunnati’s corporate social responsibility outreach.
India’s largest agri-tech enterprise, Samunnati is on a mission to create an open agri-network to unlock the trillion-dollar plus potential of Indian agriculture with smallholder farmers at the center of it.
In 2020 in the midst of the Covid pandemic and the lockdowns that followed, Vizhudugal Farmers Producer Company (FPC), in Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu, with over 1500 farmers in its fold, was desperately seeking to sell its agricultural produce—coriander, chilli, pulses, maize, onions and oil seeds.
