Millets: Forgotten then found

Virtual Event, 13/04/2023

Since her participation in the Benefit-sharing Fund project, Pudi has diversified her farming with new varieties of millets, pigeon peas, mustard and lentils. This helped her to harvest throughout the year and provide nutritious meals for her family.

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Millets grow well in Bihar, a state in eastern India, but farmers stopped cultivating the crop and lost its seeds. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) funds a project that reintroduced millets and other crops through community seed banks and on-farm trials.
Related links
https://www.fao.org/fao-stories/article/en/c/1635790/