Vol. 11, Special Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
Lalitha, R Neela Rani, R Geetha Reddy, T Kamalja and A Meena

Abstract:
The Indian economy is built on agriculture, which is a key component of that nation's economy. Agriculture includes not only the cultivation of food crops such as rice and wheat, but also maize, finger millet, sorghum, barley, pearl millet, small millets, and so on. In emerging nations in the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa, particularly in India, Nigeria, and Niger, millets are major grains that are crucial to the food and nutritional security of the populations. Sorghum, bajra (pearl millet), ragi (finger millet), and small millets such as kora (foxtail millet), little millet, kodo millet, proso millet, and barnyard millet are important millet crops farmed in India. The study showed that more than half of the respondents did not use a lease land to cultivate millets, whereas the majority of respondents were cultivating on less than 5 acres,, sorghum is cultivated majorly in kharif season and rabi season, yield of 1- 5 quintals per acre in kharif season and rabi season, majority of the respondents belonged to young age, Illiterates, main occupation were agriculture, small farm size, had 5–10 years of farming experience, sources of information received through AEO, family members.