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We seem to have lost the social memory that millets were once a major staple across India, with associations beyond food and fodder. The exoticness at...
Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal said nearly 4 lakh hectare area of rice fallow will be used for oilseeds cultivation in 100 districts ...
A jackfruit seed processing unit will be set up in Paderu The seeds of the fruit will be powdered and marketed Millet sisters will get trained in a ho...
Drawing on traditional wisdom, tribal women from Odisha are leading their communities to include and promote millets, ensuring their nutritional and l...
Saroja Patil from Karnataka started Tadhvanam to sell organic farm products that earn her Rs 50,000 a month. She now helps farmers switch to organic f...
A humble millet, it was lyricised and popularised by none other than Srinivasa Nayak aka Purandara Das that sums the finger millet, Ragi which forms t...
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As part of the key theme 'Millets', a millets food festival, launch of a millets book, and various seminars focusing on its health and nutritional ben...
Social entrepreneurs, chefs and climate smart farmers are working to bring back millets into everyday meals....
Consuming more nutritious food is possible only with millets and this system is being protected by women farmers at Pastapur and other villages, noted...
The emphasis on rice and wheat production for decades has steadily reduced the importance of millets. Some states are trying to change this, recognisi...
The nutrient-rich cereal is taking centre stage in the culinary world, replacing rice and refined flour....
Pallavi Upadhyaya is a social entrepreneur striving to bring millets back to the mainstream. Inspired by her personal health journey she started â€...
‘Farmers are selling their produce around 35% less than the MSP since government is delaying procurement’...
Agriculture department is motivating farmers to shift to alternative crops....
Under the ‘Millet Mission’ launched by Chhattisgarh Chief Minister to promote the production of minor millets, the target crop production...
Though people in rural areas still prefer to have bajra or jowar roti or even ragi, none of the large food companies have found it lucrative enough to...
A self-help group (SHG) of women in the tiny village of Nagaram of Ramagiri mandal, have started making one-of-its kind biscuits made of millets and j...
The jowar and bajra farmers have been struggling to get their dues from the Madhya Pradesh govt as over 9,000 metric tonnes of their grains procured a...
Odisha Millets Mission