2023: The International Year of the Millet

CIMMYT commits to scaling-up millet cultivation and further promoting technologies that encourage millet consumption and other dryland cereal crops.

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The United Nations declared 2023 as the International Year of the Millet.

Millet, with other resilient cereal crops, provides a nutritious and affordable option to families worldwide. CIMMYT and ICRISAT are scaling-up millet cultivation when climate change has placed pressure to protect the food systems that safeguard food security in Africa.

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Source: The Herald (21 May 2019)

Announcement by Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement was made at CIMMYT FACASI project meeting.