Millet’s cultivation in India: Challenges and Opportunities towards achieving sustainable farming and inclusive development

Millets are cultivated in resource poor areas of our nation by small and marginal farmers. Being climate resilient, improving their production and productivity through the use of improved high-yielding varieties is the source to address many of the malnourishment issues faced by our women, children, and low-income groups. The establishment of Millets Park, the creation of a new millet movement empowering primitive, vulnerable tribal groups, and ensuring gender diversity are challenges and opportunities to be explored towards achieving sustainable farming and inclusive development.