16 Dec Millets as Smart Food and Smart Crop
स्मार्ट फ़ूड और स्मार्ट फ़सल के रूप में बाजरा India celebrated the national year of millets in 2018. The U.N. General Assembly recently adopted a resolution, sponsored by India and supported by more than 70 countries, declaring 2023 as the International Year of Millets. The main objective of declaring this resolution is to increase public awareness about health benefits of millets and their suitability for cultivation under harsh conditions under changing climatic senerio. Millet is a common term to categorize small-seeded and known for high nutritive value that are often termed nutri-cereals, and includes sorghum (jowar), pearl millet (Bajra), Finger millet (ragi ), small millet (Sama), foxtail millet, proso millet (Variga), barnyard millet, kodo millet and other millets. Nowadays, there are many global issues like the rapid increase in population, global climate change, increasing food prices, water scarcity, environmental contamination, and other socio-economic impacts. These factors could adversely affecting regional agricultural developments and reduced grain production, resulting in high food prices and major food security issues worldwide. Millets are also know as “poor man food” as it is easily available, highly nutritious, very cheap, especially for those who live in hot and dry areas. As per report of the World Bank, about 815 million people worldwide are facing the problem of hunger and malnutrition....