‘Sri Anna Mahotsav’ & state-level millet workshop will be organized by the UP government in Lucknow

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Three-day ‘Sri Anna Mahotsav’ & state-level millet workshop will be organized by the UP government in Lucknow.
From the 27th to the 29th of October, the Mahotsav and workshop will be organized at Indira Gandhi Pratishthan, Lucknow to promote the use of millets.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will inaugurate the program.
On this occasion, farmers who have done good work for millet production will be honoured.
On 27 October, farmers from Lucknow, Kanpur, Ayodhya, Basti, Azamgarh, and Devipatan divisions will participate.
On 28 October, farmers from Saharanpur, Meerut, Aligarh, Agra, and Moradabad will participate.
On 29 October, farmers from Gorakhpur, Bareilly, Varanasi, Jhansi, Chitrakoot, Prayagraj, and Mirzapur will participate in the ‘Anna Mahotsav.
About 40 stalls of food made from millet will also be set up in the three-day Anna Mahotsav.
2023 is also being celebrated as the ‘International Year of Millets’ (IYM).
Millets was notified as Nutri-cereals by the Government of India in 2018.
India is the largest producer of millet.