International Year of Millets 2023
Can you identify a millet plant?
Many people choose a career in development to improve the world, but often the insights gained make it a rewarding journey of personal growth – from being able to identify unusual crops to appreciating rural life more deeply.
‘Bajra is most known millet across India’
About 65 percent of Indians have consumed millet at some point in their lives and in any form, reveals a recent survey report by DIU, a collaboration involving TRI and Sambodhi Research and Communications.
Event alert! Come, be a part of millet revolution
Village Square presents 'Bharat ki kahani: cuisines and cultures of rural India' — an exclusive culinary journey uniting rural and urban India.
Millets of Mewar restoring glory of forgotten grains
This Udaipur restaurant is tantalising taste buds and nourishing the body of patrons by dishing out nutritious millet-based meals.
Millet mantras: Your guide to a healthy platter
Here's a quick go-to guide for all that you need to know about millets, from what these super-grains look like to why they are important for us and even how to cook them.
Uttarakhand’s juiciest millet momos are calling you
A quaint little restaurant in Uttarakhand’s Tehri Garhwal is creating quite a bit of stir with dishes exclusively made of nutritious millets.
Ills of eucalyptus drive Odisha tribals back to legacy crops
In southern Odisha farmers are switching from water-guzzling eucalyptus trees to diversified farming of traditional crops to boost soil fertility, crop yield, household income and dietary diversity.
To buy supplies, millet is money in Koraput’s barter system in Odisha
Women across tribal villages store mandia or finger millets in large containers and take out small portions throughout the year for soap, oil, vegetables, dried fish, tobacco and the like
How millet magic is empowering women in rural Odisha
Loaded with nutritional benefits and climate resistant properties, finger millet can be a life-transforming crop – especially if mini-millet flour mills, making the processing easier.