Millets Revolution

Significance

  • High Nutritious Value: All millets have high nutritious with at least 5 times the amount of fibre as rice, complex carbohydrates that digest slowly, high calcium, good amount iron content and minerals and micronutrients like Beta Carotene.
  • Millets need hardly any Irrigation: Millets are rain fed crops and hence they need no irrigation. They require only about 28% of the water needs of paddy, and can also withstand severe droughts.
  • Millets grow on the Poorest of Soils: Millets are often grown on skeletal soils that are less than 15 cm deep. Millets do not demand rich soils for their survival ....
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