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Madhya Pradesh state collaborating with Civil Society to draw up Millet Policy
Madhya Pradesh state to follow leaders - Odisha Millets Mission and Comprehensive Revival of Millets of Andhra Pradesh
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Odisha Millet Mission: The successes and the challenges
"For the first time in 72 years, a key agriculture mandi intervention has taken place in Malkangiri"
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India’s water problem has a simple solution
As we diversify the cropping pattern, voluminous quantities of water would be released for meeting the drinking water needs, etc.
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Millet farmers devise mechanism to counter Climate Change
Millets - our heritage crops - are highly nutritious and climate resilient. They ensure food, nutrition, fodder, ecological and livelihoods security.
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Switching back to coarse cereals can offer multiple benefits: Study
Food supply can be enhanced by planting more nutritious and environment-friendly crops such as finger and pearl millets and sorghum
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A living gene bank
Small parcels of grains from marked off plots devoted to specific varieties are handed over as seeds to interested farmers.
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A Relationship with seeds – the Paataalkot story (a translation)
Dahiya Farming assures nutrition and food security, besides saving agro-biodiversity
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Sikkim sees surge in butterfly biodiversity
What do farms have to do with butterflies?
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‘A displaced marginal farmer from Karnataka is unlikely to be hired by Infosys’: P Sainath (in this Book Excerpt)
Traditional livelihoods can be made appealing/aspirational for the younger lot, when growth itself comes THROUGH JUSTICE.