{"id":7767,"date":"2022-11-11T02:22:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T20:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7767"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:16:10","slug":"millet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/millet\/","title":{"rendered":"Millet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Millet:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>According to the action plan, Indian missions abroad would be roped in branding and publicity of Indian millets.<\/li>\n<li>This include, identification of potential buyers such as departmental stores, supermarkets, and hypermarkets for organizing business-to-business meetings and direct tie-ups.<\/li>\n<li>As part of the promotion of Indian millets, Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority has planned to showcase millets and its value-added product on various global platforms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>International Year of Millets:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>United Nations has declared 2023 as the International Year of Millets.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India is one of the leading producers of millet in the world with an estimated share of around 41 percent in global production.<\/li>\n<li>The country recorded 27 percent growth in millet production in 2021-22 which stood at 15.92 million metric tonnes.<\/li>\n<li>The country&#8217;s top five millet-producing states are\u00a0<strong>Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, and Madhya Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is estimated that the millets market is set to grow to 12 billion US dollars by 2025 from the current 9 billion dollars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Centre-ropes-in-Indian-missions-abroad-for-branding-and-publicity-of-millets&amp;id=450695\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All India Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millets are highly varied group of small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops for food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}