Appreciate the nutritional value of native grains (millets) and understand the environmental and social journey of food (food miles).
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Introduce millets as highly nutritious native crops.
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.
Visual flowchart of wheat turning into a chapati.
Farmer growing wheat
Threshing and Winnowing
Storage of grains
Grinding and Packing
Transport
On the plate
Order the steps of the food supply chain.
Order the steps a grain of wheat takes to become a chapati on your plate.