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How is India leveraging G20 presidency to promote millets

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The year 2023 is special for India. The year 2023 was declared as the International Year of millets based on the proposal shared by India and it also holds the presidency of the G20 grouping. The country is undertaking multiple events and initiatives to promote awareness around millets and one of the interesting things that it has planned is to include millets in the meal plans of G20 meetings to be held across India over the whole year. Millet awareness on agenda during G20 presidency India is currently the President of the G20, a group of the world's largest economies. The aim is to improve awareness and consumption of millets through such events and encourage the dignitaries of visiting nations to include millets in their diet.  Millets are a group of small-seeded cereal crops that have been a staple food in India for thousands of years, but their popularity has declined in recent times in favor of more widely known crops like rice and wheat. However, millets are a highly