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Making a strong pitch for inclusion of in the daily diet of the Population<\/a> for their nutritional value and other Health<\/a> benefits, All India Pearl Millet Research Project has opined that the Central and State governments should make millets a component in the Public Distribution System<\/a> (PDS), while incentivising farmers to grow nutri-Cereals<\/a> at the same time.<\/p>\n

The millet acreage of 13 million hectares in the country, pearl millet is grown in 7.41 million hectares. The productivity of the crop has gone up from 1200 kg per hectare to 1,370 kg per hectare since 2016. The Minimum Support Price (MSP) for the crop has gone up from 1,300 per quintal to 2,250 per quintal. However, the farmers are being offered much less than this by private buyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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