Analyze the impact of yield considerations on millets cultivation. How does the perception of millets as low-yielding crops contribute to farmers prioritizing other high-yielding crops like rice and wheat?
Utkarsh Ghate
Sales price & Farm Income (Gross= quantity*price) if the top deciding factor of the farmers. So the avoid millets due to poor yield &income than rice or pulses/ wheat. However, http://www.ddsindia.com/www/default.asp showed that net profit, food security, nutrition, health, gender outcomes of millets are better than rice-wheat. DDS won UN equator award, 2019 leading to 2023 millets year declaration by UN, as pushed by GoI- https://www.equatorinitiative.org/2019/07/30/deccan-development-society/
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