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    Everyone is interested in millets. But where are the crops?

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    The praiseworthy efforts to make mainstream millets in the food system are in danger of losing steam because of a lack of incentives to attract farmers.

    The government’s initiatives to boost production and consumption of millets — as a viable alternative to water-guzzling crops and also to provide cheaper and easy-to-grow nutrient-dense food options — seem to have run into a roadblock. The root of the problem is that millet cultivation isn’t growing as expected.“There is an inconsistency in the supply or production of millets mainly because these are still less remunerative for farmers in many
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