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International Year of Millets 2023 kicks off
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Millets were traditionally consumed, but due to the push given to food security through Green Revolution in the 1960s, millets were less consumed and almost forgotten.
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International Year of Millets 2023: India leading the way
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Millets are nutritionally superior to wheat and rice owing to their higher protein levels and a more balanced amino acid profile. Millets also contain various phytochemicals which exert therapeutic properties owing to their anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative properties.
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Nepal: Indian mission holds event on International Year of Millets 2023
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
India is the world's largest producer of millets, producing 17 million tonnes annually of nine different varieties of millets, which is about 20 per cent of the global production. Millets offer unique nutritional benefits and can grow on arid land with minimal rainfall and relatively resilie
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Jaishankar hosts UN chief, UNSC member state for 'millet lunch' in New Yor
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Spearheaded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Government of India sponsored the proposal for International Year of Millets (IYM) 2023 which was accepted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The declaration has been instrumental for the Government of India to be at the forefront
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India must strive to become the global capital of millets: Piyush Goyal
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
While addressing the gathering at 'Millets-Smart Nutritive Food' Conclave in New Delhi, Minister Goyal said that the Millets-Smart Nutritive Food Conclave and the first international buyer-seller meet on millets being held on the sidelines of the Conclave would help prepare the country fo
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Govt to organise millet conclave tomorrow to help boost exports of nutri-c
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Organised by the ministry of commerce and industry through its apex agricultural export promotion body -- Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Apeda) -- the conclave will have the objective of promoting the export of millets, according to a statement from th
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Chandigarh to hold millets fair every week during International Year of Mi
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Umendra Dutt called upon Chandigarh to play a leading role in India in the International Year of Millets 2023 and assured that the Kheti Virasat Mission has been trying to propagate millets since 2008 and to play the role of a partner in this mission with the Chandigarh administration.
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Jaishankar points to 3Cs as challenges to food security: Covid, Conflict,
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
While addressing the High Commissioners/Ambassadors based in Delhi during the luncheon hosted jointly by the department of agriculture and farmers welfare and the ministry of external affairs as a pre-launch celebration of the International Year of Millets (IYOM), Jaishankar said, "I see
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International Year of Millets to provide opportunity to increase global pr
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Tomar said that on the initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the United Nations has declared the year 2023 as the International Year of Millet (IYOM).
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PM Modi seeks agreement to maintain supply of manure, foodgrains
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
"In India, for sustainable food security, we are promoting natural farming and re-popularising nutritious and traditional foodgrains like millets. Millets can also solve global malnutrition and hunger. We all must celebrate the International Year of Millets with great enthusiasm next year
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Dhankhar participates in East Asia Summit, underlines growing global conce
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
While addressing the Summit, Vice President of India "underlined the growing global concerns on food & energy security and called for EAS Members' full contribution to the International Year of Millets in 2023."
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Tomar urges BIMSTEC agriculture ministers to cooperate in transforming agr
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
While addressing the Second Agriculture Ministerial-level meeting of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation through video conference, Tomar referred to the importance of millet as a nutritious food and the efforts made by India to promote millet an
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