{"id":207685,"date":"2022-09-24T20:46:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T15:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=207685"},"modified":"2022-09-24T20:46:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T15:16:12","slug":"the-seed-of-idea-how-millets-can-help-mitigate-climate-impacts-on-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-seed-of-idea-how-millets-can-help-mitigate-climate-impacts-on-food\/","title":{"rendered":"The seed of idea: How millets can help mitigate climate impacts on food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cThe seed of idea: How millets can help mitigate climate impacts on food\u201d <\/strong>published in The Times of India <\/strong>on 24th September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS3- Agriculture and climate change<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>– Adaptation to climate change<\/p>\n

Context<\/strong>– The article explains the need for increasing millet production in context of climate change. It also discusses the methods to improve the yield of millet.<\/p>\n

What are the impacts of climate change?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Climate change is impacting agriculture production, food stability<\/strong> and nutritional security<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Increasing temperature, erratic rainfall and prolonged drought are having severe effects on plant growth. It is causing shorter grain filing periods, reduced yield and biomass of grains.<\/p>\n

However, Indian agriculture needs to safeguard the nutritional requirements of over a billion people. Thus, growing millets can be a way forward.<\/p>\n

What are the benefits of promoting millets?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Nutritional benefits<\/strong>– They are a rich source of macronutrients and micronutrients like calcium, protein and iron.<\/p>\n

They have a low glycemic index<\/strong> that prevents type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n

They can help to prevent cardiovascular diseases, lower blood pressure.<\/p>\n

Climate resilient<\/strong>– They have higher photosynthetic efficiency. Their potential yield is unaffected by higher carbon dioxide levels.<\/p>\n

Water efficient<\/strong>– They require less water. It is about one-third of rice, wheat and sugarcane.<\/p>\n

Cultural significance<\/strong>-Millets have a rich cultural history in India. They have been a traditional source of nutrition for southern and northeastern India. In rainfed farming areas, millet cultivation provides livelihood to 50% of tribal and rural population.<\/p>\n

What is the market scenario for millets?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

It is overall positive.<\/p>\n

MSP for millets has been continuously increasing.<\/p>\n

India declared 2018 as the \u201cNational year of millets<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n

2023 was declared as the \u201cInternational year of millets\u201d by<\/strong> the UN.<\/p>\n

What is the way forward?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

We have to enhance millet cultivation. There is a need to increase crop area under millet cultivation.<\/p>\n

We need to research programmes to develop seeds for millets that are high-yielding, stress-resistant, have higher biomass and nutritional value.<\/p>\n

These varieties need to be popularised through frontline demonstration and extension activities.<\/p>\n

Millets should be included in PDS (Public Distribution System).<\/p>\n

There is a need to promote agribusiness startup incubation centres<\/strong> and increase popular awareness of benefits of millets among consumers.<\/p>\n

We need to have a national regulatory policy and institutional framework<\/strong> to bolster the entire value chain for millets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cThe seed of idea: How millets can help mitigate climate impacts on food\u201d published in The Times of India on 24th September 2022. Syllabus: GS3- Agriculture and climate change Relevance– Adaptation to climate change Context– The article explains the need for increasing millet production in context of… Continue reading The seed of idea: How millets can help mitigate climate impacts on food<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-207685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}