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Initiatives > Knowledge and experience sharing

Millets are truly miracle grains. They can grow on the most marginalized soils - without irrigation, and with very little or sometimes no external inputs. They are veritable storehouses of health and nutrition. Besides, millets are also the pivot around which a vibrant agrobiodiversity survives, wherever it is allowed to survive. The farmers around India, who cultivate Millets in some of the harshest agro-climatic regions for generation are benefiting from the six securities these crops give to them: food, fodder, livelihoods, nutrition, health, and ecological.

However, historically the millets have been neglected severely over the decades. The loss of millets is not just an agricultural loss, but a civilisational loss. In curbing this trend and taking forwards the concept of millet we thought that we should build a network of people who are heroically working with millets or thinking about them, undeterred by their historical neglect. In doing so, several Knowledge and experience sharing initiatives going to be taken-up in the coming years, towards this the following activities are in progress:

	Network partner meetings for clarification of concept and designing of activities.
	Creation of a Steering Committee from five regions of India.
	Farmer exchanges on a pilot scale.
	Exchange of Senior NGO staff to study millet systems.
	A scientist – activist – policy group meeting to chalk out policy oriented action.

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