{"id":56180,"date":"2023-06-23T16:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jun\/23\/india-millet-laheri-bai-ambassador-preserves-ancient-grains-helps-promote-food-security"},"modified":"2023-06-23T16:00:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T07:00:31","slug":"how-indias-millet-ambassador-preserves-ancient-grains-and-helps-promote-food-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56180","title":{"rendered":"How India\u2019s \u2018millet ambassador\u2019 preserves ancient grains \u2013 and helps promote food security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laheri Bai\u2019s seed bank ensures traditional grains are kept alive amid a wider effort to promote millet\u2019s suitability for cultivation in challenging climate conditions<\/p>\n<p>Collecting seeds in her mud-walled farmhouse home in central India has pushed Laheri Bai to become a farming celebrity. Earlier this year, after Narendra Modi, the prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1623522335172214784?lang=en\">tweeted he was \u201cproud\u201d of Bai and the 150 varieties<\/a> she had preserved, it prompted the Indian media to call her the country\u2019s \u201cmillet ambassador\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Bai and her 1.2 hectares (3 acres) in the east of Madhya Pradesh state have become a symbol of a government policy to promote old, traditional grains that will prove sustainable in the face of climate breakdown.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jun\/23\/india-millet-laheri-bai-ambassador-preserves-ancient-grains-helps-promote-food-security\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laheri Bai\u2019s seed bank ensures traditional grains are kept alive amid a wider effort to promote millet\u2019s suitability for cultivation in challenging climate conditionsCollecting seeds in her mud-walled farmhouse home in central India has pushed Laheri B&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3813,"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":[65,653,311,1149,59,62,381,503,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-farming","category-food","category-food-security","category-global-development","category-india","category-indian-food-and-drink","category-indigenous-peoples","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56180","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\/3813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56181,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56180\/revisions\/56181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}