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Andhra Pradesh stood in the first place in the country in millet productivity in 2022, as per the NABARD annual report 2022-23. The state grew millet

SHAMATOR, AUGUST 6 (MExN): “A part of our culture is lost with the loss of a crop”, said Wekoweu Tsuhah, State Coordinator, NEN as she addressed the 3rd Millet Festival which was celebrated at Public Ground, Shamator town on August 5. 

DIMAPUR — Expounding that millet has played an important role in the food culture and livelihood of the Nagas, the coordinator of North East Network (NEN),

A tireless advocate for empowerment of rural communities through local biodiversity, P V Satheesh will remain an inspiration

The founder of Deccan Development Society not only popularised millets but also worked for agro-biodiversity, food sovereignty, women’s empowerment, Dalit rights, social justice and local knowledge systems. 

He was one of the most prominent civil society activists in the country, who founded the DDS in Zaheerabad in 1983

PV Satheesh was founder and Executive Director of Deccan Development Society (DDS) that worked out of Pastapur village in Sangareddy district of Telangana, where last rites of the 77-year-old will take place on Monday at 10.30 am.

Our Correspondent Kohima, Oct. 14 (EMN): Indigenous crops should be protected and its ‘purity’ maintained; adopt good cultivation practices, identify medicinal and high-yielding crops with indigenous methods as well as improvise it, said Temsuinla, Joint Director of State Agriculture Research Station, Yisemyong, Mokokchung. She was addressing the inaugural programme of the ‘Confluence of Rural Women’, a workshop on “Millets and women- success, challenges and strategies”, ...

Our CorrespondentKohima, Aug. 31 (EMN): Meluri Millet Sisters, in collaboration with Millet Network of India and Northeast Network (NEN), celebrated the 2nd edition of ‘Millet Festival’ in Meluri village under Phek district on August 31 on the theme ‘Celebrating common heritage for a shared, resilient future.’ The SDAO of Meluri and special guest of the event, Phrumasie Nyuthe, has stressed on the importance of agriculture, without which human sustenance and livelihood would be impossibl...

30 October 2015 - She does not shout slogans and sit on dharnas, she is unlikely to have heard of Marx, and armed rebellion is nowhere on her horizon. Her revolution is embedded in the basics of life: soil, seeds, water, sun, and knowledge born of generations of living with these natural elements. On just 3 acres of rainfed land in one of India’s driest regions, she has grown 45 crop varieties, produced enough to feed her family for the whole year, and earned Rs. 2 lakhs selling the surplus. ...