finger millet

IAS officer Sushant Gaurav won the PM’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration for transforming Jharkhand's Gumla district through ragi.

For two decades, Telangana's Veer Shetty Biradar -- the founder of SS Bhavani Foods -- has been making millets like sorghum, bajra, foxtail millet and finger millet accessible to the masses.

Dr S Anitha, senior scientist, nutrition, at ICRISAT, Hyderabad, led a study to find what happens when rice is replaced by millets in your child’s meal, and how much it can affect their growth.

Arka Pudota is on a mission to bring back millets to the mainstream by raising awareness about their consumption and production.

Groups of 10-15 women farmers in Ramanagara district, Karnataka, owning anywhere between 0.5-1.5 acres of land, come together to conserve and produce indigenous seeds, cultivate and process grains, and compose organic inputs.

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