Food supply can be enhanced by planting more nutritious and environment-friendly crops such as finger and pearl millets and sorghum

Millet farming saves nearly six million litres of water per acre - they can stand up to the crisis of climate change.

Preserving traditional seeds is intrinsically linked to food security and livelihoods of families of farming communities.

Processing at the University is comparatively cheap, and since there are no middlemen, farmers of Hyderabad-Karnataka save a lot.

Millet Sisters bases itself on these sterling principles of millets: They are resilient; Life infusing; Life sustaining; Life generating

Faced with crop losses because of erratic rainfall and extreme weather, tribal farmers of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh turn to bewar and penda forms of cultivation on land considered inferior, that keeps them nourished all times of the year, but government agencies are bent on rooting out these farm practices