Abstract
Biofortification is considered to be a potential strategy for tackling malnutrition. Biofortification is an act of enhancing nutrition level in grains by diverse practices like intervening crop agronomy, conventional plant-breeding, and cutting-edge biotechnological options. It has gained utmost importance post targets set under the Sustainable development goals. Malnutrition takes different forms like undernourishment, overweighing and obese, and, dietary related diseases that are not contagious. Micronutrient deficiencies-shortfall from the norm for essential nutrients, such as zinc, iron, vitamin-A, vitamin-B12, and iodine-affects substantial population and biofortification is a probable answer to end malnutrition for being natural, economical, and profitable. It is a food-based approach and improves the nutrition levels significantly as evident from the past research. However, biofortification to be successful, it has to be adopted, upscaled, and utilized by the stakeholders concerned for achieving the set target by 2030. Intensive efforts by all partners facilitated by policies like mainstreaming biofortification in the national breeding programs followed by organized campaign through cluster demonstrations and price premium to biofortified grains will strengthen the complete biofortification value chain.
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