Two Decades of Organic Farming in Sittilingi Valley
The self-sufficient hamlets in Tamil Nadu’s Sittilingi Valley offer valuable lessons in taking ownership of community health and farming, and the place millet cultivation occupies in doing so.
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What kind of stories have you been reading about millets this past year? Through these stories, we want to bring you diverse and nuanced narratives featuring growers whose work we believe in, and underrepresented accounts of relationships with millets. We explore how complex the millet system really is, and their role in a fulfilling future for everyone.
“In areas with water scarcity, millets can be a lifeline.”
Tapas Chandra Roy talks to Anoushka Rabha about the challenges of millet cultivation at the grassroots level, the Odisha Millet Mission, and sustainable farm-to-plate models.
Millets, Murals, and the Making of Uttarakhand
Walking Dehradun's streets, Somya Dhuliya watched murals depicting Uttarakhand's fields, farmers, and foods blossom on newly whitewashed walls. But does employing food to create a state's distinct identity take on an insidious character if the state itself is organised along exclusivist lines?
Spending Sowing Day with Elubai and Govind Bhaiyya
Elubai and Govind Bhaiyya—a farmer couple from Devasiya village in Madhya Pradesh—talk to Laxminarayan Devda about preparing for the Kharif sowing season, why they practise chemical-free farming, and how more farmers in the region can be encouraged to plant jowar.
बुआई का दिन एलुबाई और गोविंद भैया के साथ
मध्य प्रदेश के देवसिया गांव के किसान दंपत्ति एलुबाई और गोविंद भैया ने लक्ष्मीनारायण
देवड़ा से खरीफ की बुआई की तैयारी, रसायन मुक्त खेती क्यों करते हैं और क्षेत्र के अधिक
किसानों को ज्वार की खेती के लिए कैसे प्रोत्साहित किया जा सकता है के बारे में बात की।
How to Catch Luck in a Pot
What can make a day luminous? What can make millets fun, easy even? Friendships, and a little bit of faith, it seems. Mukta Patil, editor at the Millet Revival Project gathers some girlfriends, and perspectives, at this joyous millet-centric potluck in Delhi.
A Slow-moving Crisis Below the Threshold of Disaster
How do tastes and desires, social hierarchies, access to resources, and public policy intersect to create complicated lived realities? Dr. Bhrigupati Singh explores some of these questions in the context of wheat and millets through his ethnographic research in Shahabad, Rajasthan.
“What makes society, agriculture, and everything resilient is diversity”
Professor and scientist Dr. Ruth DeFries talks to the Millet Revival Project about the irony of millets becoming all the rage in urban areas in India, while being non-aspirational and stigmatised in rural pockets, and why farmers are still not reaping the benefits of growing them.
Demystifying Millets: A Beginner’s Glossary
With the onslaught of online and offline content, we are inundated with words that we might be familiar with, but do not always understand the context in which they are used. This glossary attempts to demystify some of these terms used around millets.
‘It Tastes Like Earth, with a Bit of Tartness’
A fermented, porridge-like ragi drink offers more than just succour on a hot summer’s day. For most communities in Tamil Nadu, it is a means of sustenance. For Valli, it tastes best when had with leftover fish curry.
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