A more expanded vision is needed to promote millets

A focus on hybrids and select millet varieties limits the benefits that these supergrains can provide   

Millets can assist India in generating revenue through carbon trading

Emergent demand for food in light of an ecological crisis inflicted by industrialised countries will only contribute to shortages, rising food …

In Memoriam: P V Satheesh was an agrarian revolutionary 

A tireless advocate for empowerment of rural communities through local biodiversity, P V Satheesh will remain an inspiration

How Can Millets be a Game Changer for healthy living and fighting climate change | Future of Taste

How millets farming can be a game changer for farmers and consumers to sustain healthy living and fight climate change

Women SHGs in Odisha champion push for millets

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

Millet might: Here is how Odisha can succeed in reviving these cereals lost to the Green Revolution

Odisha’s mission to bring millets back to its fields and plates needs greater marketing support and promotion beyond tribal areas 

Shifting to millets increases groundwater recharge more than drip irrigation in India’s northern plains: Study

Switching from rice to millets such as pearl millet & sorghum during the Kharif season and shifting from wheat to sorghum in the Rabi season …

Consider setting up one exclusive shop for millets in every district: Panel to Centre

Recommendations to give impetus to consumption of coarse grains and millet-based food products

Healthy start: This Delhi entrepreneur makes complementary foods for babies using millets, traditional recipes 

There is no sugar, milk powder or preservatives in the products manufactured by Arvind Singh’s company

Future of Taste: How do our food choices affect climate change?

 As the world prepares itself to be climate-responsible, we need to reset the connection between food and livelihood, nutrition and nature

Eleusine Coracana: Finger Millet

Popularly known as ragi, this is the richest source of potassium among all millets. The grains are brown and the recipes prepared are visually …

Not all weeds seen in millet farms are villains but uncultivated crops

These crops sustain the poor and enrich their food basket

Setaria italica: Foxtail millet

This is one of the earliest millets to be cultivated and has a sweet, nutty flavour. It is considered one of the most digestible and non-…

Panicum sumatrense: Kutki Millet

Also called little millet, it has very small seeds which are covered with an indigestible husk that needs to be removed before the grain can be …

International year of millets: Centre to work on decentralised processing & marketing

Themes for a comprehensive plate-to-farm millet food system proposed the People’s Convention on Millets for Millions

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 

A land imagined: Indigenous crops help Marathwada women in adding to family nutrition

Women in Maharashtra's Marathwada region reclaim parts of their farmland to grow produce of choice and to ensure nutrition security of their …

Cool off with koozh

From roadside vendors to hotels, this nutritious beverage and porridge made of local millets is a common sight in Tamil Nadu during summers 

Jowar an ideal alternative to wheat in times of increasing temperatures

Without pragmatic changes in managing how wheat is cultivated in India, the yields are likely to decrease by 5 per cent, the research notes

Future of Taste: In a climate-risked world, eating right is as much about nutrition as it is about the environment, people

Luxury emission-based model of food production should be discouraged, especially when the survival of farmers worldwide is jeopardised by climate …

PM Modi: Climate action ambitions must match with action on climate finance

Calls for democratising climate action in a blog article

Bihan Mela: A seed festival aims to help tribal Kondh farmers in Odisha return to their agricultural traditions

The seed festival and bank will facilitate use of indigenous varieties and traditional farming which farmers have abandoned since the …

As told to Parliament (March 22, 2022): India has installed renewable energy projects of 152 GW capacity

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How Odisha is revalorising minor millets 

Despite their glorious past, millets have been sidelined in farms and on food plates over the years

How Indian states are promoting organic, natural farming

States such as Odisha and Karnataka have started initiatives such as procurement of organic produce and linkages with PDS, ICDS and other schemes&…