Millet Network of India

[1] The group have helped village farmers to grow millet with low water usage and organic fertiliser while highlighting the injustice of government subsidies which encourage competitor crops like rice.

Millet will grow on poor soil, it suffers from few diseases and the harvested crop can be kept for a long time.

[2] Millet can be fed with natural fertilisers, but not many farmers still grow it, stopping because there is little demand.

[5] Moghulamma, who collected the award, was aged 36 and had become a full time farmer after her husband and his mother died.

The network supplies advice on pest control and the organic use of vermicompost, manure and panchgavya.