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00:00The main aim of this seminar is to provide scientific support to the contribution of Koraput and the contribution of Odisha,
00:07including the growing military awareness of India by Prime Minister Modi.
00:13We want to do a lot of research on this.
00:17We want to market the products of the common man and internationalize them.
00:25We know that a lot of Koraput's products go to America.
00:28We know that Koraput's products go to Pune and Manjira.
00:32But due to this, a lot of people don't know about this.
00:35We want to create a mass awareness.
00:38And after this, the common man, the scientific community,
00:43the political leaders, plus marketing and branding.
00:47As Dr. Mahapatra said, if there is no proper marketing and value addition,
00:53then what will happen?
00:54There are two or three things that we have done.
00:56And what we have found here,
00:58if you look at Dr. Mahapatra and Dr. Singh,
01:01apart from them, there are two American scientists.
01:04They are from Odisha, but they work in Virginia and Georgia Universities.
01:08In Hyderabad, there is IKRISAT, which is a big organization.
01:12In IKRISAT, there are scientists like Dr. Bhettirvantan, Dr. Singh,
01:17some people from Kerala who work in the military,
01:21some people from Uttarakhand,
01:23some scientists from Sri Lanka,
01:25and their team work together.
01:28Apart from them, there are people from Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, Telangana,
01:33Tamil Nadu, Swaminathan Foundation,
01:36and Dr. Oliver.
01:37Swaminathan Foundation has done a lot of work in this area.
01:40We praise them very little.
01:42But all over India, Swaminathan Foundation contributes,
01:46whether it is millet or rice.
01:47That's why Dr. Oliver is here.
01:49We have 5-6 seminars in 3 days.
01:52The main topics are research, branding, marketing, value addition,
01:58and further research, reaching the farmers.
02:01We have added a component here, NGO.
02:04Farmers' rights, farmers' facilities,
02:07and the benefits of marketing to the farmers.
02:10Dr. Devrath Pandya is in the Biodiversity Department.
02:13He has been doing research here for the last 3-4 years.
02:16He has published 15-20 high-impact papers in the International Journal.
02:21He highlights all the papers in the Odisha Journal.
02:25He has done this work.
02:27We have a farm in our department.
02:30You can see it.
02:31We want to highlight it.
02:33The purpose is, the ingredients of Kora Putra,
02:36biodiversity richness,
02:38not only rice, but also millet contributes a lot.
02:41We want to tell you, millet is not a single, it is a compound term.
02:45We have ragi, suan, little millet, kangu, many varieties.
02:51All of them have different credibility and properties.
02:54How to take up all of them,
02:56and how to reach the masses,
02:59the people of Kora Putra can do it.
03:01But the people of Odisha should participate in their diet.
03:04The people of India should do it.
03:06The diversity of Kora Putra is not the status of other states.
03:09For example, in Rajasthan, Bajirao, Tamil Nadu,
03:12Telangana,
03:13in Kora Putra, we get the maximum variety of millet.
03:16But in the future, millet will not be in the diet.
03:18And for the economic development of the farmers,
03:20Kora Putra will be a millet hub.
03:22That is the purpose.
03:24If Central University does more research,
03:26we will be able to do tagging and branding.
03:28I am talking to Bhai Chanchal.
03:30Bhai Chanchal is enthusiastic.
03:32I think we will be able to do more work on millet in the future.