Why in India millets crop is decreasing gradually.. Explain in points...
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•The reason for the decline has been attributed to easy availability of rice and wheat through PDS that resulted in food consumption away from the small millets in the producing regions, during 1961-2009.
•Similarly, cultivation of small millets declined from 7.22 million hectare to 2.2 millon hectare during 1961-2009 period.
•Inadequate investments on product development and commercial ratio.
•low social status of small millet food, resistance to dietary habits .
•lack of knowledge on the use of small millets in the daily diet have been constraining its consumption.
•the area that was under millet cultivation has been taken over by horticultural crops.
•Following the western model of development, India and other developing nations have lost out on a lot of useful and meaningful things. Food habits have been one of the biggest changes. We are quickly forgetting our indigenous foods and chasing standardisation. Millets too have been discarded as being too primitive to be used, forgetting the roots.
These changes, coupled with state policies that favour rice and wheat, have led to a sharp decline in millet production and consumption.
Answer:
In India, "millet crop production" is decreasing due to the following reasons :
• Policies: Laws introduced by government favour crops like wheat and rice which gives farmers an incentive to produce these crops
• Demand: The demand for millet has decreased due to the changes in eating habits and introduction of new cuisines. This has led to less production
• Green Revolution: "Green revolution" promoted the production of wheat and rice whose production doubled and tripled respectively.
• People in the cities and towns have shifted from millet to wheat or rice as the former are thought to be coarse grains whereas the latter are called refined grains