{"id":89960,"date":"2019-02-03T16:04:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T10:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2019-02-03T16:04:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T10:34:08","slug":"state-catching-up-with-superfoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/state-catching-up-with-superfoods\/","title":{"rendered":"State catching up with superfoods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Kerala\nState Agriculture Department has planned to expand the Millet Village Scheme to\nIdukki, Wayanad and other parts of Palakkad. The Millet Village Scheme is a 3\nyear project which started in the year 2017-18. <\/li><li>The project aims at protecting seeds of\ntraditional varieties of millets and ensures food security&nbsp;and livelihood\nfor tribals. The project is being implemented in selected hamlets in Attapady, Palakkad\ndistrict, Kerala.<\/li><li>Under the scheme, the state agriculture department\nhad harvested ragi (finger millet), thina (foxtail millet), cholam (sorghum)\nand kuthiravaali (barnyard millet). It has also initiated a pilot scheme for\ncultivating Chia, a Central American plant.<\/li><li>Millets are a group of highly variable\nsmall-seeded grasses. They are widely grown around the world as cereal crops or\ngrains for fodder and human food. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation\n(FAO) has decided to observe 2023 as the International Year of Millets.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kerala State Agriculture Department has planned to expand the Millet Village Scheme to Idukki, Wayanad and other parts of Palakkad. The Millet Village Scheme is a 3 year project which started in the year 2017-18. The project aims at protecting seeds of traditional varieties of millets and ensures food security&nbsp;and livelihood for tribals. The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/state-catching-up-with-superfoods\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State catching up with superfoods<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[7311],"class_list":["post-89960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-millet-village-scheme","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89960","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}