Millets Promotion in India by Women Farmers for a Sustainable Economy

Abstract

Agriculture systems worldwide need to adopt sustainable cropping solutions to deal with existing issues of malnutrition, food insecurity, resource depletion and lifestyle health issues. Millets have special nutritive and agronomic properties. Millets offer one such solution as they have nutritional, environmental, and economic superiority over the most common staple grains in India. The present study deals with women empowerment in agriculture that reflects increased women's decision-making authority related to agricultural resources, management and production, and income, which will enhance the ability of women farmers to strengthen their economic status. The novelty of this study focuses to address challenges in sustainable production and marketing in millets promotion that impede inclusive growth of women farmers. The findings of this study advocate having an integrated approach to enhance millet value chain efficiencies to develop millet promotion, considering economic, environmental, and health sustainability through women empowerment.