Guwahati: A millet café displaying ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook millet products was inaugurated by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on February 1.

The café at Gana Sewa Bhawan in Assam Secretariat, Dispur, will sell millet-based snacks and meals. The aim is to bring awareness on the nutritious food grain, increase production and consumption and raise farmers’ incomes. It is an initiative under the Assam Millets Mission (AMM) that was launched on November 16 last year.

The Assam Millets Mission (AMM) is presently being implemented in 15 districts in an area of 620 ha.

Inaugurating the café, Sarma said millets are full of nutrition and are suitable to be cultivated in Assam. “In celebrating the International Year of Millets 2023, we need to popularise millets and its consumption. The millet café on the premises of the Assam Secretariat is a step towards this endeavour,” he added.

The millet café will be run by women entrepreneur Surabhi Borgohain in association with Rigdam Foods.

A millet-based food start-up, Rigdam Foods is founded by Dibyajyoti Borgohain Saikia and Madhavi Pomar under the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics and Nutrihub, Indian Institute of Millets Research and Nadathur Sarangapani Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning - Incubation Centre for Start-ups, Business and Women Entrepreneurs, IIM Bangalore.

It is also planned that the participants attending the upcoming G20 Summit meetings in the state will be served delicacies made from millets.

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