Tag: Millets
APEDA facilitates 500 startups to market and export millet based value added products
A success story has just come in from Sangrur in Punjab where a farmer, Dilpreet...
Promoting millets in diets: NITI Aayog report
The NITI Aayog has just released a report on 'Promoting Millets in Diets: Best Practices...
Millets: The lost and found crop - thanks to FAO-backed community seed banks
Over the past two decades, communities in central and eastern Indian states had...
Growth Potential for ‘Millet’ – a Boon for Health
In addition to its potential for increasing food security, millet has many other...
Farmers making more money by growing millets, but facing challenges in marketing and processing
paddy cultivation costs Rs 25,000-30,000 per hectare, the cost of ragi per hectare...
Nafed to promote millets, MOU with Agriculture Ministry
Nafed, which has entered into a MoU with the ministry in this regard, will set up...
Periyapatna V Satheesh: Champion of millets, argo biodiversity, rural women’s rights passes away
The 77-year-old Satheesh, a noted civil society activist, strived hard to promote...
'Shree Anna' will benefit 2.5 cr marginal farmers in India, says PM at Millet Meet
Modi informed that the contribution of Millet to the national food basket is a mere...
ICRISAT-Plasma Water Solutions MoU for higher crop output
To address the much-debated issues of low productivity levels in India and the resultant...
Millets Giveaway, a spl marketing campaign
The Giveaway campaign motivates general public to buy directly from FPO farmers....
Tomar urges small farmers to grow more millets to help address malnutrition
Tomar said millets are grown by small and marginal farmers, and not by big farmers....
Millets to boost income of small farmers
The year 2023 has been declared by the United Nations as the International Year...
International Year of Millets: Pre-launch event
The Government of India has kickstarted the pre-launch celebration in a big way...
Centre to promote export of millets
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry through its apex agricultural export promotion...
Stubble trouble: Politics overtakes economics
Stubble burning begins around October and peaks in November, coinciding with the...
India to promote nutritious cereal products for public health: Narendra Tomar
Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has urged the ASEAN member countries...
