{"id":9432,"date":"2022-10-05T03:39:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T22:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9432"},"modified":"2025-03-29T13:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T07:47:21","slug":"international-year-of-millets-iyom-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/international-year-of-millets-iyom-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"International Year of Millets (IYOM)-2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>The resolution is intended to increase public awareness on the health benefits of millets and their suitability for cultivation under tough conditions marked by climate change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are millets?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Millet is a cereal that belongs to the grass family.<\/li>\n<li>Majorly cultivated in the semiarid tropical regions of Africa and Asia, around 97 percent of world\u2019s overall millet production happens in these regions.<\/li>\n<li>Types of millets: Jowar (Sorghum), Ragi, Bajra (Pearl millet).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1865040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations General Assembly at its 75th session in March 2021 declared 2023 the International Year of Millets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9432","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\/9432","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=9432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}