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The
National Consultation on Millets, organized by the Millet
Network of India and Deccan Development Society in
collaboration with the National Institute for Rural
Development was an effort in this direction. For two days,
farmers, activists, academics, environmentalists, policy
makers and scientists sat together to debate and discuss
the ways and means of reinventing millets and put them at
the centre of our agrarian policy space. The publication
in your hand is an eloquent summary of the issues
discussed, ideas offered and the actions contemplated in
this Consultation. If this document compels the policy
makers, agricultural and development academia and social
activists to take a relook at millets, with a new
fascination for them, then the purpose of the National
Consultation will have been achieved. The Hyderabad
Declaration on Millets, at the end of this report is a
call for action. The Millet Network of India invites
everyone who welcomes the ‘concept that is millet’ to
engage in this action.
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