Celebrating the International Year of Millets (IYM) in 2023, Agriculture Ministry is hosting a Millet food festival in Parliament for the members on 20th of December. In this regard today, Minister of State for Agriculture Shobha Karandlaje reviewed the preparations with the senior Agriculture and ICAR officials.

During the Millet food festival, branding of Millet and recipes will be displayed and millet-based food items be served to the Members of Parliament in the Parliament House premises.

In recent, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, organized an opening ceremony for the International Year of Millets – 2023 (IYM2023) in Rome, Italy. The United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, accepted the proposal by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to celebrate 2023 as International Year of Millets.

The ‘Millets’ were among the first crops to be domesticated in India with several evidence of its’ consumption during the Indus valley civilization. Being grown in more than 130 countries, Millets are traditional food for more than half a billion people across Asia and Africa.