MIIRA: India’s Initiative to Promote Millets at the International Level

MIIRA

What is MIIRA? MIIRA stands for ”Millet International Initiative for Research and Awareness. India introduced a draft on MIIRA which was placed during the first Agriculture Deputies Meeting under the Agriculture Working Group (AWG), G20 at Indore, Madhya Pradesh on Feb 13-15, 2023. Before, going into details of MIIRA, let us understand why this initiative … Read more

Best way to learn how to cook Millet perfectly with Shalini and start your Millet journey

how to cook millet

How to Cook Millet Perfectly: When it comes to millet recipes, people still face difficulty. But if we know the proper way and techniques to cook millet, it becomes easy. The removal of anti-nutritional compounds from the millet is a mandatory requirement prior to its consumption otherwise it can create serious health hazards. From ancient … Read more

Millet Conservation for Future Generation is the need of the hour

Millet Conservation

Strategies for Millet Conservation: Selective utilization of specific crops and varieties in these modern days has threatened the agro-biodiversity leading to the loss of many potential landraces and subsequently affecting the nutritional security of the people. The only way to conserve the millet landraces is to bring them into use and build a viable ecosystem … Read more

International Year of Millets 2023: India taking the Lead

International Year of Millets

International Year of Millets: Since 21st June 2015, the International Year of Yoga is celebrated annually across the world. India took Yoga internationally and in the same way, 2023 has been declared the International Year of Millets. That happened when 72 other countries supported the proposal of India to the United Nations. It is a … Read more

What is the importance of Millets in today’s scenario in India?

Importance of Millets

Importance of Millets in India: Millets are a group of small-seeded annual grasses that are grown as grain crops primarily on marginal land in dry areas and belong to the Poaceae family. Millets are the ancient food grains first domesticated for food and grown in 131 countries. Millets are the traditional food for 59 crore … Read more

Odisha Millet Mission: Best model setting example at the National Level

Odisha Millet Mission

Odisha Millet Mission : Special Programme for Promotion of Millets in Tribal Areas of Odisha is one of the unique projects in the agriculture department which focuses on improved production of Nutri-cereals, local consumption, procurement under MSP, and distribution through PDS. The mission is initiated in the financial year 2017-18. The mission has been successfully … Read more

5 Amazing Browntop Millet Benefits trending in India – Millet Advisor

Browntop Millet Benefits

Browntop Millet Benefits: My phone was ringing when I got home after returning from my office in the evening. It was a call from my school days friend. ”Hey listen I was thinking to call you for so many days, asking you about your initiative on millets and how to include millets in our family … Read more

5 best millet for weight loss with yummy and delicious recipes

millet for weight loss

Millet for Weight loss: Due to the lack of dietary diversity in our diet, there is an increase in non-communicable diseases like diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease. Obesity or Overweight is the major problem faced by city dwellers. Obesity is increasing at a fast rate in India because we are giving more preference to refined … Read more

How to add millet to your diet- It’s Simple & Easy

How to add millet to your diet

How to add Millet to your diet: With the rising of health issues, lifestyle diseases, and nutritional insecurity, it’s high time to give attention to a miracle grain, Millets as it deserves it. Millets are extremely nutritious and good for health. Millets are not new to us rather it was grown and consumed as a … Read more

Millet Export from India is creating opportunities for New Entrepreneurs

Millet Export from India

Millet Export from India: The demand for millet is increasing, not only in the domestic market but also in the international markets. As we know the demand for healthy food has increased during the current pandemic in India and globally. We can say that COVID-19 has given opportunities to promote millet and millet-based products. It … Read more