Dietary Diversity and Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture in India

Nithya D J is a Nutritionist at MSSRF with a doctorate degree in Food Science and Nutrition from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. She has worked as Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology and Agricultural Engineering College in the field of Food Processing and Technology. Nithya has experience of training potential women entrepreneurs on value addition. Nithya is also responsible for the nutrition status monitoring surveys and nutrition education at various levels under LANSA. In an interview with her, she explained mainly about dietary diversity practices in India and also stressed emphasis on nutrition sensitive agriculture for more intake of nutritional requirement.