{"id":220694,"date":"2023-01-02T20:43:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T15:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=220694"},"modified":"2023-01-02T20:43:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T15:13:19","slug":"centre-states-to-join-hands-to-promote-millets-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-states-to-join-hands-to-promote-millets-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre, States to join hands to promote millets consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cCentre, States to join hands to promote millets consumption\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 1st January,2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To promote the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cultivation and consumption of millets on a larger scale, the Union government with the help of various States and Indian embassies around the globe has launched the International Year of Millets(IYM).<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are Millets?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-are-millets-the-grains-on-pm-narendra-modis-lunch-menu\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the importance of Millet in India?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Millets were among the first crops to be domesticated in India with several evidence of its consumption during the Indus valley civilization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India, millets are primarily a Kharif crop, requiring less water and agricultural inputs than other similar staples.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2018, the Government of India rebranded Millets as \u201cNutri Cereals\u201d followed by the year 2018 being declared as the National Year of Millets aiming at larger promotion and demand generation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What has the Government of India planned to do to promote millets in 2023?\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Union Ministries, States and Indian embassies have been allocated a \u2018focussed month\u2019 each in 2023 to promote millets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, in January, the Union Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs and the Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Rajasthan governments will conduct International Year of Millets(IYM) events and activities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cCentre, States to join hands to promote millets consumption\u201d published in The Hindu on 1st January,2023 What is the News? To promote the cultivation and consumption of millets on a larger scale, the Union government with the help of various States and Indian embassies around the globe&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-states-to-join-hands-to-promote-millets-consumption\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Centre, States to join hands to promote millets consumption<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-220694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220694","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}