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Little millet (Kutki)

An ancient dryland millet native to the Indian peninsula, grown across the Eastern Ghats tribal regions of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Madhya

A rabi cereal grown primarily in high-altitude Himalayan areas, particularly in Himachal Pradesh and parts of Uttarakhand; valued as grain,

India’s premium plantation crop grown across 400,000 hectares of Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu’s Western Ghats — a globally recognised

India’s most iconic export crop, grown across 600,000 hectares in Assam, Darjeeling, and the Nilgiris; the source of livelihood for

A high-value commercial crop of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Gujarat, grown across 430,000 hectares; the basis of the cigarette, bidi,

The golden fibre of eastern India — grown across 700,000 hectares of West Bengal, Bihar, and Assam in the humid

India’s second most valuable agricultural crop and the basis of the sugar, ethanol, and by-product industries — grown across 5

India’s most valuable fibre crop and the livelihood of 6 million farmers across Maharashtra, Gujarat, Telangana, and Punjab — at

A rabi oilseed grown on residual soil moisture in MP, UP, and Chhattisgarh; valued for its omega-3 fatty acid content

One of the oldest cultivated oilseeds in Indian civilisation, grown across 1.7 million hectares of Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Andhra Pradesh;