ICRISAT News

The International Year of Millets will provide a great opportunity to promote available technologies on millets and the benefits that come with millets to encourage consumption and utilisation of millets.

The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), a provider of agricultural solutions for dryland areas, hails the renewed focus on millets. The International Year of Millets aims at recognising these benefits of millets and promote awareness to encourage the consumption and utilisation of millets. Millets are staple crops of the drylands, where rainfall is low and soil fertility is poor. Moreover, millets have higher nutrient content compared to other major cereal crops.

ICRISAT promotes natural resource management technologies including water conservation measures, soil improvement measures (soil structure, soil fertility and soil health), innovative and collective approaches to managing landscapes for restoration, and good agricultural practices that reduce degradation of land and environmental pollution.

Over the years, ICRISAT and partners have developed many agricultural technologies that are available to support communities in dryland areas as well as other areas. Strong partnerships with public and private organisations will help promote these technologies through many channels, training, demonstration plots, field days, digital information systems and media outlets.

The International Year of Millets will provide a great opportunity to promote available technologies on millets and the benefits that come with millets to encourage consumption and utilisation of millets. ICRISAT is happy to join hands with all key players to launch and recognize the importance of millets and continue the promotion of millets in 2023 and onwards. Please join us in this.

See https://pressroom.icrisat.org/millet-drylands-staple-at-the-centre-of-food-security