‘Millet Champions’ calling for the Government of India to launch a National Millet Mission, especially since 2018 is the National Year of Millets at the ‘Millets, Monsoon and Market’ dialogue.

Millets comprised 12% of the cultivated area as part of the Special Project on Rainfed area development programme in Tamil Nadu, the Govt of TN has allocated Rs. 802 crores for the promotion of millets during 2016-17 and 100 crores in 2019-20 for the promotion of livelihood opportunities under millets.

Organic farming movement was initiated in Karnataka by the innovative farmers of the State and the movement gained momentum during 1990s. The advent of chemical intensive farming and its prevalence in Karnataka during the later part of green revolution resulted in the near stagnant levels of productivity in many crops. The farmers were into debt trap owing to the ,

More than 60% of the area in India is cultivated in arid and semi-arid conditions characterized by long dry seasons, inadequate and unpredictable rainfall and infertile and fragile soils, which provides around 40% of the food produced (Gulati and Kelley 2000). Farmers here are exposed to harsh agro climatic conditions,

Government has announced an allocation of Rs. 300 crores in 2011-12 under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana for promotion of millets as Nutri-cereals. Scheme on Initiative for Nutrition Security through Intensive Millets Promotion has been formulated to operationalize the announcement. The scheme aims to demonstrate the improved production and post-harvest technologies in an integrated manner with visible i,

The present paper is part of the action research project ‘Revalorising Small Millets in Rainfed Regions of South Asia’ (RESMISA) which aims to increase production and consumption of nutritious small millets and associated pulse and oil seed crops in rainfed regions of India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. It focuses on overcoming existing constraints related to production, distribution,

The nutritious Millets traditionally occupied substantial part of the diets and crop systems in tribal areas and in the dry rainfed areas of Andhra Pradesh. Government’s focus on promotion of rice in agriculture and in PDS has led to a shift away from millets. Reduction in millets resulted in nutrition imbalances and distorted cropping systems increasing demand on water. Millets are more resilient to cl,

There has to be climate smart cereals. There has to be a change in the mindset of people with regard to nutrition and eliminate biases such as calling millets ‘coarse cereals’.

Fungal toxins (mycotoxins) accumulate in a range of food commodities and are implicated in numerous human and livestock diseases, such as cancer, cirrhosis, immunological deficiencies, and others. Additionally, a growing body of evidence suggests that these toxins play a role in adverse child growth and development,