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Millets & Food Miles

Appreciate the nutritional value of native grains (millets) and understand the environmental and social journey of food (food miles).

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The Power of Millets

Introduce millets as highly nutritious native crops.

💡 Did you know?
Millets like jowar, bajra, ragi, and sanwa are small-sized grains that have been a part of the Indian diet for centuries. Because they are packed with vitamins, minerals (like calcium and iron), and dietary fibres, they are widely known as 'nutri-cereals'.
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Food Miles

The Journey of Your Food

Explain the concept of food miles and why minimizing them matters.

Have you ever wondered how food reaches from a farm to our plate?

The entire distance travelled by a bag of wheat or any other food item, from the producer (the farm) to the consumer, is known as its food miles.

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Process

From Farm to Plate: The Chapati Story

Visual flowchart of wheat turning into a chapati.

polished process flowchart, rounded card-style nodes, pastel gradient fills, elegant sans-serif typography, generous whitespace, subtle connecting arrows, light neutral background. The process illustrates the 'Story of Chapati: From Farm to Plate' showing the sequence: 1. Farmer growing wheat, 2. Threshing and winnowing of grains, 3. Storage of grains in sacks, 4. Grinding of grains and packing, 5. Transport to retail shop, 6. Food on our plate (Chapati).
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Farmer growing wheat

polished process flowchart, rounded card-style nodes, pastel gradient fills, elegant sans-serif typography, generous whitespace, subtle connecting arrows, light neutral background. The process illustrates the 'Story of Chapati: From Farm to Plate' showing the sequence: 1. Farmer growing wheat, 2. Threshing and winnowing of grains, 3. Storage of grains in sacks, 4. Grinding of grains and packing, 5. Transport to retail shop, 6. Food on our plate (Chapati).
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Threshing and Winnowing

polished process flowchart, rounded card-style nodes, pastel gradient fills, elegant sans-serif typography, generous whitespace, subtle connecting arrows, light neutral background. The process illustrates the 'Story of Chapati: From Farm to Plate' showing the sequence: 1. Farmer growing wheat, 2. Threshing and winnowing of grains, 3. Storage of grains in sacks, 4. Grinding of grains and packing, 5. Transport to retail shop, 6. Food on our plate (Chapati).
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Storage of grains

polished process flowchart, rounded card-style nodes, pastel gradient fills, elegant sans-serif typography, generous whitespace, subtle connecting arrows, light neutral background. The process illustrates the 'Story of Chapati: From Farm to Plate' showing the sequence: 1. Farmer growing wheat, 2. Threshing and winnowing of grains, 3. Storage of grains in sacks, 4. Grinding of grains and packing, 5. Transport to retail shop, 6. Food on our plate (Chapati).
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Grinding and Packing

polished process flowchart, rounded card-style nodes, pastel gradient fills, elegant sans-serif typography, generous whitespace, subtle connecting arrows, light neutral background. The process illustrates the 'Story of Chapati: From Farm to Plate' showing the sequence: 1. Farmer growing wheat, 2. Threshing and winnowing of grains, 3. Storage of grains in sacks, 4. Grinding of grains and packing, 5. Transport to retail shop, 6. Food on our plate (Chapati).
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Transport

polished process flowchart, rounded card-style nodes, pastel gradient fills, elegant sans-serif typography, generous whitespace, subtle connecting arrows, light neutral background. The process illustrates the 'Story of Chapati: From Farm to Plate' showing the sequence: 1. Farmer growing wheat, 2. Threshing and winnowing of grains, 3. Storage of grains in sacks, 4. Grinding of grains and packing, 5. Transport to retail shop, 6. Food on our plate (Chapati).
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On the plate

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Sequence

Trace the Chapati

Order the steps of the food supply chain.

Order the steps a grain of wheat takes to become a chapati on your plate.

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