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- The year 2023 has been declared by the United Nations as the International Year of the Millet, following a proposal by India, which wants to position itself as a global hub for millets.
It’s interesting how millets can help the world face the challenges confronting it.
Here’s what the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN has to say about millets. As the global agrifood systems face challenges to feed an ever-growing global population, resilient cereals like millets provide an affordable and nutritious option, and efforts need to be scaled-up to promote their cultivation. “Millets can play an important role and contribute to our collective efforts to empower smallholder farmers, achieve sustainable development, eliminate hunger, adapt to climate change, promote biodiversity, and transform agrifood systems,” says FAO Director-General QU Dongyu.
How are millets healthier for you?
Millets are cereal, like rice or wheat, but used to be referred to as coarse cereals, an obvious reference to the external texture which is not smooth. All cereals are a rich source of carbohydrate but millets also come with more protein, dietary fibre, iron and calcium content than rice or wheat.
In a 2018 notification, the government says millets are a powerhouse of nutrients and that research had shown millets as good defence in the fight against diabetes. Millets have a low glycemic index, which means such foods have lesser impact on blood glucose levels than foods that are higher up in the index. To help consumers understand the benefits better, the government has changed the nomenclature from coarse grains to Nutricereals.
Why are millets said to be climate-friendly?
An article at ORFonline tells us that millets use 70% less water than rice; grow in half the time of wheat; and need 40% less energy in processing. They are hardy crops that can withstand extreme heat conditions.
Why did millets lose preference over the past few decades? What is the export market like?
Script and presentation: K. Bharat Kumar
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My grand father lived 105 with out illness . He told to me in his young age people eat rice rarely and they eat millets on that time
Exactly modern idli, dosa killed such great foods
Obviously all the grandparents did the same. I think they were the ones who consumed real worthy foods...
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Very enriching.....a quality content for mains
Nice of you to say so. Thank you. This is a weekly series. Do you get to watch it regularly ?
great video as always! yes millets have high protein content and we need to create more awareness of the health benefits!
Thank you for watching!
Thank you so much for featuring me in your video on Millet Business. It's really a happy moment for me.
Dear Sir,
thank you very much for the presentation. Greetings from a millet grower from Slovenia, Europe.
Why was millets not a focus crop in the agricultural revolution?
Why have the market forces not favoured millets?
Such a clear explanation so much knowledge on millets
If u wanna save soil just change ur diet to millites just quit these these five from ur diet Rice Wheat Sugarcane Meat And finally gmo seeds or hybrid seeds that how ur gona save soil
I,m recently adopted millet in my life style because of millet man of lndia Patma Sree Dr Khadar vali.
In UP, Bihar, Punjab and haryana millet has been source of protein and nutrition for long time.
Grew up eating bajra, kuttu, ramdana or amaranth.
Nice to know this. Thank you for watching
@@bratteshwara sir, there are many dessert that were made during all seasons.
Kuttu ata roti and poori were favorite. Not many know, that daliya style breakfast has been staple of many people all over villages.
And after I grew up, realised those Millets were then given to animals for better milk performance.
With advent of quinoa as superfood people forget our own.
But my father recalls wheat wasn't the main bread source and people couldn't afford it.
Even water chestnut flour was used to make roti.
Many villagers used to sell wheat and rice as cash crops and eat millets.
Only when my father generation became well to do people could afford wheat and for a generation or so people forgot millet a d considered as animals fodder.
It's true.
If you go in depth in UP AMD bihar you would know that's the truth.
Sorry for late reply.
Somehow I didn't got the notification for the comments.
We are growing association of Beekeepers and Farmers here in India. There is correlation between the Honey Bees and the pearl Grain Millets crop. Bees and Beekeepers like it. To know more about why it is so. Hint-As you sow, so shall you reap. देखते रहिए, "The Hindu".
Amazing! Thanks for information . I guess it's time to replace rice with millet :-) Millet for baking industry sounds promising.
If you talk Millets, I think of Khader Vali. He popularized Millets (Chiru Dhanyalu) in Karnataka and AP/TG
Follow Khader Vali. He is the father of modern millet revolution in the 21st century in India. He is very active in UA-cam.
sir, has he any official channel in UA-cam ?..
@@avi130avi130 millet magic. I think so.
@@jnanaranjanmuduli4251 👍🏻ok sir, thank you.. 🙏🏻
As always fantastic data accumulation and commendable presentation.
Thank you so much!
That's informative 🔥.Hope this makes people aware and thus increase its demand and production.#Behealthyconsumemillets 🔥
Thank you
Very conceptual and such an euphonious narration, Thankyou.
Thank you. And I learnt a new word today!
Please provide these types of important information in Hindi so that everyone get understand properly.
Thank you for the feedback. Noted.
Excellent move !
With out considering usage of millets it is difficult to achive nutritional food for all over the world
100 gmsRagi has 7 percent protein one gram of Calcium and 7 percent fibre. But rice contains less than two percent protein, calcium very least negligible, fibre one and half percent. Ragi is great
Please congrats Khader vali . He brought awarness on Millets
In india before 1970s Millets played a major roles in farming ... &. It has been considered as Poor people's food , Where Rice 🍚 & Wheat 🌾 Considered as rich people 's food .... Apart from that Millets were farmed a lot when population was low than high one ...
I'm sold, buying millets after this, instead of rice.
Nice to know. Tell us of your experience after a few weeks of trying. Reply here...
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Same UrbanNaxal Media and foreign companies in the 1970s and late 1980s Laught at Indian tradition and food culture(promoted chemical fertilizer and Modified products now circle back and appreciation Western Research paper smartly excluding Indian Traditional Herritag Ayurveda and Yoga🙂
I've stopped eating Rice to support Millet farmers and myself!
Thank you Sir!
You are keeping the reader/ viewer base always updated!
Btw, you missed wishing us - "Have a lovely week ahead"
LoL. Glad you noticed it. Will make that wish a fixture!! And thank you for your kind words.
here in bangalore millennials are switching back to millets like ragi.
Our ancestors were right.
We would have been in the right direction if not for colonizers.
Thankyou
Thank you sir for an excellent explanation....
Thank you
So informative thankss
Thank you
Just hope that the prices of millets don't hit the sky as UN is controlled by the US and they only mean business.already millets are an costly affair in India.If mass produced then prices will be affordable.
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I have seen videos that state some 3rd world countries (often in tropical regions) import huge amounts of wheat when they have millet they could grow and be self sufficient, but the developed nations grow crops so efficiently they can export their crops for sale cheaper than local farmers can grow millets. this needs to be changed so these millet growing nations can begin to produce millet for self sufficiency and export because many developed nations would love to have more options at their groceries being millets can be used for all things wheats can be used for. Many of them don't have the wields wheats has per plant but science can change that.
Thank you for watching.
@ cliff Woodbury
The videos aren't true atleast in my country, actually in rural areas people eat millet daily if they don't eat millet, they feel they haven't eaten.
Importation of foods is usually low amounts just for the expertriates.
Let's Go with Millets 🌟
Film Stars and Sports persons Must realise the Importance of Millets so that they can spread the awareness about millets and the awareness will be very rapid.
The Prices of millets Production/demand should be affordable and Stable to Common man then only we can have a better use of Millets to feed our People 🙏
Very insightful. Thank you very much 🙏
Thank you. This is a weekly series. Do you get to watch it regularly ?
@@bratteshwara I have subscribed to the channel recently and a daily reader of the newspaper. Will watch it on a regular basis henceforth.
@@ervivekchoubey thank you!
Very informative video
Thank you for watching. This is a weekly series. Do you get to watch it regularly ?
Sir can you share video on millet value add product and their market opportunity & challenges........
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MSP also mono cropping cultivation more subsidy on paddy and wheat than millets.
Government only initiative MSP price increase for millets and other cereals.under NFHS -5 report 55.6 %women affected anemia’s and 20% children under nutrition.
If food price increases automatically people demand for food reduced.
A very relevant post
Thank you
Superb sir
Thank you
V nice explanation!
Thank you for your compliment
I used to eat & drink it's soups now
If millets becomes popular,a lot many industries will shut shop, what'll happen to our economy?
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Good 👍😊
Thank you 🙏🏽
No one denying that millets is complent stable for poor .
This information has long before said by Dr,khadar in India ,now US and UN are finding its uses .Only people believe when it is said by foreign countries.
Hope Millets would not destroy by using BT methods.
I love millets.
Ground nut chutney mixed with cooked foxtail millet tastes yummier than with cooked polished rice.
You you can make string hoppers (idiyappam/sandhavai/noodles) with kodo millet, banyard millet and pearl millet and mix them with lemon mix, tomato mix or with egg like lemon rice, tomato rice or egg rice.
If you love coconut oil in cooking, you can add in a few spoons of coconut oil while cooking little millet, because the latter tastes a lot better with the former like an aroma therapy.
You can make also puttu with millets and ragi puttu with beetroot is so delicious with sweetness from the beetroot.
Wow. We learnt quite a few things here. Thank you!!
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If Indian Govt had so much brain, they should've known millet is resilient crop, needs far less water, environment friendly, needs far less pesticides, more resistant to insects, faster harvest. But, still Indian Govt chose rice /wheat over millet ! Why ? Bcoz it benefits pesticide makers, refined food making companies like Kellogg, middlemen in making profits etc.
sounds like the badminton of vegetables
Millet resturant karna hoga
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Keralam CM : We don't need Millets our Matta Rice ( Boiled rice ) has much nutritional value.
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