Piyush Goyal inaugurates Food Security Museum at Chennai

‘Food Security’ is synonymous to ‘Farmer Security’ which comes from Consumer Security: Goyal

To celebrate and commemorate 75 years of progressive India, the Minister of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles, Piyush Goyal virtually inaugurated the Food Security Museum at Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu.

He said that the Food Security Museum is the first museum in India to depict India’s food security story from a “ship to mouth” existence to becoming one of the largest food grain exporting nations.

The Food Museum at Thanjavur will be one of its kind of attraction. The Museum is theme based and shares how food was collected from Mesolothic era to various methodologies of storage and challenges faced by the early man. The Museum also encompasses some key information about Food Corporation of India related to its history, Procurement, Storage and Preservation, Movement and Distribution.

The buzzword of ‘Food Security’, has attracted the attention of every nation in the world. ‘Food Security’ is synonymous to ‘Farmer Security’. With ‘Farmer Security’ comes ‘Consumer Security’.  The Centre has taken reformative steps which has seen into highest procurement of foodgrains from farmers at MSP.  KMS 202121-22 commenced recently & benefitted 3.7 lakh farmers with MSP value of Rs 11,100 crore. India with its resilience, capability & capacity has emerged as a trusted partner to the world,” Goyal said.