{"id":233060,"date":"2023-03-21T19:09:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T13:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=233060"},"modified":"2023-03-21T19:09:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T13:39:19","slug":"cereal-solution-dietary-shifts-are-slow-processes-and-india-must-let-all-grains-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cereal-solution-dietary-shifts-are-slow-processes-and-india-must-let-all-grains-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Cereal solution – Dietary shifts are slow processes, and India must let all grains grow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/span><\/b>: The post is based on an article\u202f<\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/b>Cereal solution – Dietary shifts are slow processes, and India must let all grains grow<\/span><\/b>\u201d<\/span> published in <\/span>The Hindu <\/span><\/b>on\u202f<\/span>21<\/span><\/b>st<\/span><\/b> March 2023<\/span><\/b>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Agriculture<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/span><\/b>challenges with promoting millets<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

News<\/span><\/b>: <\/span>The PM recently inaugurated a <\/span>global conference on millets<\/a><\/strong>. The United Nations has declared 2023 as the International Year of Millets and the Budget 2023-24 has called millets as \u2018Shree Anna\u2019.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are millets and their benefits?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Click Here to Read\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite their benefits, they were not promoted during the green revolution.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why were millets not promoted during the Green Revolution?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

They were not promoted because of the <\/span>food security provided by high-yielding varieties of rice and wheat.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

High-yielding varieties of rice and wheat along with guaranteed procurement by the government enabled India to be food secure even in droughts and climate uncertainties.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, <\/span>this food security came at the cost of exploitation of groundwater<\/span><\/b>, excessive use of pesticides and decreasing remunerations for the average farmer over the years.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As a result, the government is attempting to promote millet to support sustainable agriculture, however, there are challenges to overcome.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the challenges associated with promoting millets?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

According to the <\/span>Food and Agriculture Organization<\/span><\/b>, <\/span>rice-wheat-maize constitutes 89% of global cereal production.<\/span><\/b> So, millet production needs to be much higher in order to compete with it.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Further, despite the existence of hybrid varieties of jowar and bajra, the yields have not risen. Hence, it is unrealistic to expect that growth will increase through simple technological advancements.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, dietary shifts are slow processes and <\/span>promoting millets as superior to other grains might have economic consequences<\/span><\/b> and may create hype about them similar to what was observed with cash crops. <\/span>This can have consequences for marginal farmers<\/span><\/b>.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hence, it is preferable to market all grains equally<\/strong>, with an emphasis on expanding the customer base and giving them access to the cereals they want.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article\u202f\u201cCereal solution – Dietary shifts are slow processes, and India must let all grains grow\u201d published in The Hindu on\u202f21st March 2023.\u00a0 Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Agriculture\u00a0 Relevance: challenges with promoting millets\u00a0 News: The PM recently inaugurated a global conference on millets. The United Nations has declared 2023… Continue reading Cereal solution – Dietary shifts are slow processes, and India must let all grains grow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"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":[216,10498],"class_list":["post-233060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","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\/233060","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\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}