India’s millets push may feature at COP28
agricultural organisation (FAO) that will result into producing a policy paper and a book. “We have ‘save the millets campaign’ since it’s the international millets year.
We have already launched the campaign which is aligned with our counterfort approach. Millets are not only nutritious in terms of protein and other minerals but also, they have a very low carbon footprint," Proposal Development Specialist of ICBA Nour El Jundi said.
To create domestic and global demand and to provide nutritional food to the people, India proposed to the United Nations for declaring 2023 as International Year of Millets (IYoM-2023) and it was accepted during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly. IYM 2023 will be an opportunity to raise awareness of, and direct policy attention to the nutritional and health benefits of millets and their suitability for cultivation under adverse and changing climatic conditions.
Though the UAE is still struggling to promote the production of millets due to lack of rainfall weighing on the agriculture activity, India has been on the forefront to promote millets consumption. Additionally, ICBA has proposed for a research training programme collaborations for organisation of Islamic Cooperation countries-1 pilot case of Uganda, ‘demo agtech hub’ at ICBA to demonstrate agri-preneurs technologies and one policy paper on the findings of the ESG Nexus with agriculture under climate change workshop co-organised with the Rothamsted Research, the UK, two senior officials aware of the matter said.
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