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Millets were a primitive crop earlier and were
seen as a backward crop. It was seen as inferior
which ruined the minds of people further. How-
ever, the growing focus on millet, which is a
highly varied group of cereal grains. The people
are now focusing on the benefits of the millet
which include that every millet gives a different
nutrition for example Ragi, grows with very little
water, feeds the whole living system, and has
high power in recycling the carbon dioxide. All
of these traits also make the millets climate resilient
crop. Moving forward, Dr. Vandana drew our
attention to the
importance of
farming. Farming
which today’s
youth has very
little optimism in
is one of the
highest and
most highly
required profes-
sions but at the
same, we need to
make it more
sustainable and
fill several gaps
within it.
Currently, only
5% of what we
pay goes to the fore, it is crucial to make the financial system
farmer. There- more lucrative for our hardworking farmers

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