nutritional value

Dr Debabrata Panda did his research on Agro-biodiversity, Underutilised Plant Species, and Wild Crops. He explains the importance of indigenous rice, millet and other wild crop species found in Koraput, Odisha.

"When the research was published, the government made this warning mandatory. It upset a lot of baby food companies. And today, we are saving babies because of this knowledge," says Varanasi's 91-year-old Annapurna Shukla.