Smart Food updates Collaborating with celebrity chefs in London, Paris and West Africa Smart Food cooks up momentum with culinary skills from across London to Paris, West Africa and India  Three celebrity chefs from Gabon, Congo and Senegal are finding new takers for millets and sorghum in Europe, with innovative recipes featuring a touch of ‘home’. The chefs tied up with the Smart Food campaign to show these cereals can effortlessly be turned into tasty food.    Read more

Young chefs heat up India’s first Smart Food reality showirst Smart Food Culinary Symposium prepares ground for change in millets industry Who will be the Smart Food student chef of India? Fourteen finalist young chefs from across India will fire up the burners to be crowned the country’s star Smart Food student chef. Paired as seven teams they will take on the challenge of pleasing the palate of celebrity judges and Smart Food experts at the Grand Finale of the Smart Food Culinary Challenge on 19 January 2019 in Bengaluru.    Read more

First Smart Food Culinary Symposium prepares ground for change in millets industry The first of a series of India-wide Smart Food Culinary Symposiums was organized for chefs from major fine-dining chains and food service representatives in Bengaluru. Experts from government, training, nutrition and agriculture were on hand to ponder over challenges and opportunities. Millets were the center of discussions, and approaches to help develop the industry were discussed with Dr Jagadeesha, Commissioner, Department of Agriculture, Government of Karnataka.     Read more Placing Smart Food in industrial canteen menus Opportunities and challenges to bring millets into industrial canteens were brought to the table at an event held in Bengaluru to create awareness of millets among industrial caterers and to highlight the government’s role to assist. Noted chefs also showcased the use of millets in recipes during discussions.   Read more Building culinary skills with a wide range of activities across West and Central Africa From being blogged about to being showcased at international events, the Smart Food initiative is gaining support from chefs to politicians in West and Central Africa (WCA), and in its wake, overturning dated notions about dryland cereals.   Read more Feature stories Promoting dual-purpose sorghum and vegetable sack gardens for better nutrition in Mali Demonstration of improved, dual-purpose sorghum varieties and an innovative method called vegetable sack garden generated great interest in local farmers in Sikasso, Mali, recently. Farmers and agricultural scientists also discussed ways to scale up these technologies for a wider area of impact.    Read more Targeted farm interventions made easy with precise soil health diagnosis Boosting farm soil health in Odisha just got easier. Farmers in the state can now implement targeted interventions thanks to soil health cards being distributed under the Bhoochetana Project.   Read more Odisha to move beyond paddy, to focus on millets and legumes Odisha plans to diversify its agriculture beyond popular cash crops with emphasis on legumes and dryland cereals including millets, the state’s Principal Secretary for Agriculture, Dr Saurabh Garg, announced during a recent visit to ICRISAT – Patancheru.    Read more              More information go to icrisat.com