‘Labour burden on women millet producers must be reduced’

Shailaja Fennell, an expert in gender and household dynamics in agriculture, talks to Down To Earth about millet production in India

Mission Millet: Odisha employed a holistic agri-strategy to procure 600,000 quintals of ragi

Farmer producer organisations, crop intensification methods play key role in process

Odisha develops protocol for releasing indigenous millet seeds

Odisha is the first state to notify a committee to conserve and mainstream seeds conserved by tribal farmers 

Women SHGs in Odisha champion push for millets

The Odisha Millets Mission leads joint efforts to empower women entrepreneurs and promote millet consumption

Beyond the hoopla: Millets must be promoted. But health and economic concerns need priority

Nutritional advantages of millets are offset by presence of phytic acid; cultivation yield also poor compared to wheat and rice

Odisha set to introduce locally produced millets into ICDS, PDS

Keonjhar district will introduce ragi for pre-school meals through DMF funds from July 

The International Year of Millets is an opportunity to improve indigenous kids’ nutrition

About 4.7 million tribal children in the country suffer from chronic nutrition deprivation

Boost indigenous millet recipes over packaged products

Preparing millets fresh should be made easy instead of promoting ultra-processed packaged foods; this may be the way to bring it into …