What’s in the news?

• NITI Aayog released a report titled Promoting Millets in Diets: Best Practices across States/UTs of India. 
• The report presents a set of good and innovative practices adopted by states governments and organizations in various aspects of millet value- chain especially production, processing and consumption. 
• The report in three themes i.e. 

(a) State Missions and initiatives to promote millets; 

(b) Inclusion of millets in ICDS;

(c) Research and development and use of technology for innovative practices. 

• The report will serve as a guiding repository to revive and mainstream millets in our diets.

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1919990