To promote the export of millets, the government is organising a day-long ‘Millets-Smart Nutritive Food’ Conclave in New Delhi on December 5.
The conclave is a pre-launch event of the International Year of Millets – 2023 organised by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry through its apex agricultural export promotion body, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA).
Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will be the chief guest at the conclave. At the first-of-its-kind Millets Conclave, the government will release e-catalogue on 30 potential importing countries and 21 millet producing states of India.
According to the official statement, an exhibition and B2B meeting will also be organized at the Conclave to showcase Indian millets and millet-based products.
The millets export promotion programme comes at the backdrop of the proposal of India that was supported by 72 countries which lead to the United Nations’ General Assembly declaring 2023 as the International Year of Millets on the 5th of March 2021. India is one of the leading producers of millet in the world with an estimated share of around 41 percent in global production.