Crops

KODO MILLET (Kodon)

A tribal staple of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, grown on thin, degraded soils where no other grain crop can survive; […]

Crops

FOXTAIL MILLET (Kangni)

Prashant Shrivastava

A short-duration, drought-tolerant crop cultivated in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu; recently gaining renewed interest as a climate-resilient superfood

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FINGER MILLET (Ragi)

Prashant Shrivastava

The nutritional anchor of the tribal farming communities of Karnataka, Odisha, and Jharkhand; exceptionally rich in calcium and iron, increasingly

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PEARL MILLET (Bajra)

Prashant Shrivastava

Cultivated across 7 million hectares of Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Haryana as the primary food and fodder crop of the arid

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SORGHUM (Jowar)

Prashant Shrivastava

Grown across 5 million hectares of Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Madhya Pradesh as a kharif and rabi dryland cereal and high-quality

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BARLEY

Prashant Shrivastava

Grown across 0.7 million hectares of Rajasthan, UP, and Bihar as a rabi cereal; valued for malt, feed, and increasingly

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MAIZE

Prashant Shrivastava

Now India’s third most important cereal, grown across Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, and Rajasthan in both kharif and rabi seasons

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WHEAT

Prashant Shrivastava

India’s premier rabi crop, grown across 30 million hectares of the Indo-Gangetic plains and central India, providing the staple grain

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RICE

Prashant Shrivastava

Sown across 45 million hectares as India’s primary kharif crop, rice is the food security anchor of eastern, southern, and