(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's food security model has
transformed Odisha into the pioneer state in India in the domain of
food security making it a role model for the world, claimed the
state government, Trend reports citing The Print .
A state government official said Odisha is the third-largest
contributor of rice to India's PDS system. Chief Minister Naveen
Patnaik's food security model has transformed Odisha from a state
that used to import rice from other states to make its ends meet in
the pre-2000 era into the no 1 ranked state in India in the domain
of food security.
As per the“State Ranking Index for National Food Security Act
(NFSA)” by the Department of Food and Public Distribution, the
Government of India, Odisha has emerged as the top-ranked state in
the entire country.
Apart from successfully implementing the National Food Security
Programme by providing food grains to 3.24 crore people of Odisha,
the Naveen Patnaik government has also successfully more than
doubled the production of food grains in Odisha, said the
official.
He further mentioned that the United Nations World Food
Programme (WFP) headquartered at Rome invited Naveen Patnaik to
share the transformational progress made by Odisha in strengthening
livelihood and food security, with a specific focus on marginalised
communities and women.
CM Patnaik delivered an address in the presence of United
Nations WFP executive director David Beasley and the leadership
team on how over the last two decades, Odisha has been through a
transformational journey in the field of food production, food
security, livelihoods, disaster management, among many others.
Patnaik shared to this global audience about how Odisha had
attained food sufficiency, initiated large-scale growth-related
programmes, designed and created climate-resilient livelihoods and
nutrition, and focussed on partnerships so that Odisha consistently
kept moving towards attaining the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDG), added the official.
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