What has made Odisha Millets Mission a success story in such a short time

For thousands of farmers, the path towards relative higher income has been smoothened by active help from the Odisha Millets Mission

Golap Bishi, a second-generation farmer from Odisha’s Bolangir district has traditionally been cultivating cotton lured by high returns and a ready market.

After several years of cotton farming, the productivity of Bishi’s land started declining. The production cost also went up due to an increase in the price of fertilisers, pesticides and daily wages.

A worried Bishi turned towards the traditional wisdom of inter-cropping cotton with milletS, something which his father, grandfather and generations before them practiced for ages.

The results, Bishi records in an official document, were visible in just a few seasons.

Not only the per-hectare income improved,