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Promoting Millets in Diets

Who released a report titled ‘Promoting Millets in Diets‘?

[A] Food Corporation of India
[B] World Food Programme
[C] National Institute of Food Technology
[D] NITI Aayog

Current Affairs

  1. NITI Aayog released a report titled Promoting Millets in Diets: Best Practices across States/UTs of India.
  2. Recently, Odisha has decided to introduce locally produced millets for the first time into Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme and Public Distribution System (PDS).
  3. The initiatives will be carried out as a part of the Odisha’s Millet Mission (2017).
Report in three themes
  1. (a) State Missions and initiatives to promote millets;
  2. (b) Inclusion of millets in ICDS; Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)
  3. (c) Research and development and use of technology for innovative practices.

Millet 

Millets
1Ragi Finger millet
2Jowar Sorghum
3Sama Little millet
4Bajra Pearl millet
5Variga Proso millet
Millets

Millet-growing states

Main millet-growing states in India are Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh.

Research on millets – Research on millets is carried out by

  1. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
  2. ICAR-Indian Institute of Millets Research in Telangana, India,
  3. United States Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service at Tifton, Georgia, United States

Why millet crop is favored?

  1. Millets are adapted to poor, dry infertile soils,
  2. They are more reliable under adverse conditions than most other grain crops.
  3. Millet crop is favored due to its productivity and short growing season under dry, high-temperature conditions.

Millets

  1. ‘Okashana 1’, a variety developed in India from a natural-growing millet variety in Burkina Faso doubled yields.
  2. In 2020, global production of millet was 30.5 million tonnes, led by India with 41% of the world total.
  3. People affected by gluten-related disorders, such as coeliac disease, non-celiac gluten sensitivity and wheat allergy sufferers,who need a gluten-free diet, can replace gluten-containing cereals in their diets with millet