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Climate resilient millets boost livelihood opportunities for Odisha’s tribal women -Aishwarya Mohanty

-India.Mongabay.com

* Millets are being revived in the state of Odisha, on a large scale under its flagship Odisha Millets Mission. Millets grow well in dry zones as rain-fed crops and are considered low-duty crops.

* The revival is helping women farmers in the tribal districts of the state to enhance their livelihood opportunities and become financially independent.

* In Mayurbhanj, the third most populous district in Odisha, the number of women farmers involved in millet cultivation has gone up by 104 percent since 2019.

Kalpana Sethi, 30, exuberantly shows around her two-acre land, which was once a wasteland but now aids in her children’s education. Situated on a moderate slope, in the Bisoi village of Mayurbhanj district in Odisha, the land was used for cattle grazing until two years ago. Sethi is now preparing to cultivate millets. Once a traditional native crop of the state, millets were long forgotten until they were revived in 2017 under the flagship programme, ‘Odisha Millets Mission (OMM)’, to promote millets in tribal areas of the state. The different varieties of millets that are being cultivated include ragi, foxtail, pearl, sorghum, kodo and barnyard among others, with ragi covering over 86 percent of the total cultivation.

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