Professor Rajeev K Varshney Super-grain, super-food and wonder-grain are some of the adjectives often used to describe millets, one of the oldest foods known to humans, and probably the first grain used for domestic purposes. The unanimous adoption by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) of the resolution to declare 2023 as the International Year […]
Dr.Vivak M. Arya, Tamanna Sharma Millets are a group of grains belonging to the grass family Poaceae. Millet is a collective term used to refer a range of small-seeded annual grasses that are grown as grain crops, primarily on marginal soils in dry areas of temperate, subtropical, and tropical climates. Millets encompass a diverse group of cereals including pearl, proso, foxtail, barnyard, little, kodo, browntop, finger and Guinea millets, as well as fonio, sorghum (or great millet) and teff. These […]
VIENNA, Jan 2: Millets are far healthier than rice and wheat one eats daily and offer a completely different value proposition at a time when there is a worry about a global food shortage, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. Addressing the members of the Indian diaspora here in the Austrian capital on Sunday,
The centre ministries, state governments and Indian embassies have been allocated a focussed month in 2023 to carry out various activities for the promotion of IYM and increase awareness about benefits of millets, the nodal agriculture ministry said in a statement.