{"id":14962,"date":"2020-02-25T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/25\/against-the-grain-why-millet-is-enjoying-an-indian-revival-nagaland"},"modified":"2020-02-25T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T06:00:41","slug":"against-the-grain-why-millet-is-making-a-comeback-in-rural-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14962","title":{"rendered":"Against the grain: why millet is making a comeback in rural India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nagaland farmers are bringing back the ancient crop \u2013 said to have near-miraculous powers \u2013 as a less water-intensive alternative to rice<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Photographs courtesy of NEN Nagaland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wh\u00fcl\u00fc Thurr is a staunch believer in ancient farming traditions. \u201cThere is an old adage,\u201d she says, \u201cwhich goes \u2018even a single stalk of millet can revive a dying man\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 65-year-old farmer, from New Phor village in Nagaland state, north-east India, is a devotee of the ancient grain millet, and is well versed in its nutritional benefit. She is one of the few farmers here who has stayed with the traditional crop over the decades. Many other farmers in Nagaland, the majority of whom are women, have stopped growing it due to a lack of demand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/25\/against-the-grain-why-millet-is-enjoying-an-indian-revival-nagaland\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nagaland farmers are bringing back the ancient crop \u2013 said to have near-miraculous powers \u2013 as a less water-intensive alternative to ricePhotographs courtesy of NEN NagalandWh\u00fcl\u00fc Thurr is a staunch believer in ancient farming traditions. \u201cThere is an o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1031,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[326,65,1149,59,62,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-food-security","category-global-development","category-india","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14963,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962\/revisions\/14963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}