{"id":36332,"date":"2017-12-12T07:40:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T07:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=36332"},"modified":"2017-12-12T07:40:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T07:40:39","slug":"proposal-declare-international-year-millets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/proposal-declare-international-year-millets\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposal to declare International Year of Millets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently, Shri Radha Mohan Singh, the Union Minister for Agriculture &amp; Farmers Welfare has sent a proposal to United Nations for declaring which of the following year as \u2018International Year of Millets\u2019?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) \u00a02021<br \/>\n(b) \u00a02018<br \/>\n(c) \u00a02019<br \/>\n(d) \u00a02020<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On November 22, 2017, Shri Radha Mohan Singh, the Union Minister for Agriculture &amp; Farmers Welfare has sent a proposal to United Nations for declaring the year 2018 as \u2018International Year of Millets\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>It is noteworthy that Millet is a common term to categorize small-seeded grasses.<\/li>\n<li>It is often termed nutri-cereals or dryland-cereals, and includes sorghum, pearl millet, ragi, small millet, foxtail millet, proso millet, barnyard millet, kodo millet and other millets.<\/li>\n<li>An important staple cereal crop for millions of small holder dryland farmers across sub-saharan Africa and Asia, millets offer nutrition, resilience, income and livelihood for farmers even in difficult times.<\/li>\n<li>Millets can provide nutritional security and act as a shield against nutritional deficiency, especially among children and women.<\/li>\n<li>The anaemia (iron deficiency), B-complex vitamin deficiency, pellagra (niacin deficiency) can be effectively tackled with intake of less expensive but nutritionally rich food grains like millets.<\/li>\n<li>The proposal, if agreed, will raise awareness about millets among consumers, policy makers, industry and R&amp;D sector.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=173750\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=173750<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently, Shri Radha Mohan Singh, the Union Minister for Agriculture &amp; Farmers Welfare has sent a proposal to United Nations for declaring which of the following year as \u2018International Year of Millets\u2019? (a) \u00a02021 (b) \u00a02018 (c) \u00a02019 (d) \u00a02020 Ans: (b) Related facts: On November 22, 2017, Shri Radha Mohan Singh, the Union [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}