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Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh
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- It was launched by Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani along with Bill Gates in New Delhi.
- The Union Ministry of Women and Child Development has partnered with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh project.
- It is a repository of diverse crops across 128 agro-climatic zones to help enable better nutritional outcomes.
- The Kosh aims to reduce malnutrition among women and children across the country, through a multi-sectoral results-based framework, including agriculture.
- In most cases, malnutrition is the cause of death of children below the age of five years.
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