Millet crops example - Millets in climate resilient agriculture
Recently the United Nations declared that 2023 be celebrated as the International year of millets.
Millets are group of small grained cereal food crops which are highly nutritious and are grown under low fertile soils with very low inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides and were domesticated and cultivated by small farmers in semi-arid and tropical regions.
Millets are known for their drought tolerance and more importantly nutrient rich grains especially calcium and iron. Mostly farmers who cultivate millets are small and marginal and are subsistence farming system based.
Millets are highly resilient in adapting to different ecological conditions; ideal crops for climate
change and contingency plantings. Millets are C4 plants these are more environment friendly with high water use efficiency and low input requirement, but equally responsive to high input management.
Millets can be cultivated in very low rainfall conditions like 200 to 400mm annual precipitation conditions.
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