The target group are provided with nutritional food products: multi-grain meal, jowar meal, multi-grain sweet meal, energy bar, nutri-cookies and jowar bytes. These food products have been developed by NutriPlus Knowledge Programme (NPK) at AIP- ICRISAT using local crops and are based on millet, sorghum, and pulses. A total of 7,241 beneficiaries have received Giri Poshana food in the month of March 2020. Jowar meal is to be replaced by millet flakes mixture, multi grain meal by peanut – fried gram chikki and multi grain sweetmeal by ragi- jaggery cookies. “Ready-to-eat food is being distributed in ITDA areas of Telangana as part of Giri Poshana in ITDAs – Utnoor, Eturnagaram and Bhadrachalam.

Source: The Hindu May 31, 2020 17:26 UTC