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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Culture has helped millets survive -Deepanwita Gita Niyogi

Culture has helped millets survive -Deepanwita Gita Niyogi

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published Published on Sep 29, 2018   modified Modified on Sep 29, 2018
-Down to Earth

Throughout ages, many rituals have been associated with millet cultivation and women are to be thanked for this

Asmillets make a comeback to our fields and plates, the formal launch of an extensive campaign beginning from Pune to promote these nutri cerealsassumes great significance. According to B Dayakar Rao, principal scientist at the Indian Institute of Millets Research, "The Pune event is basically an extension of the National Millet Mission mooted by the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers’ Welfare across 14 states."

Historically, India always had a rich association with millets. But in the past six decades, India’s agricultural policy favoured rice and wheat over millets. Professor Martin Jones, Departmentof Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, blames food standardisation for the disappearance of millets from India's food plates.

“The primary driver is the market, which optimises food profit, through an increasing specialisation in a few market-friendly crops. This is opposed to food security, which relies on a greater diversity of resources that don’t all fail at the same time. Currently, market-friendly cereals are wheat, rice and maize, which fuel over 50 per cent of the global food chain,” Jones says.

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Down to Earth, 28 September, 2018, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/culture-has-helped-millets-survive-61730


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