Inter Press Service: Eshwarappa Banakar has been a farmer most of his adult life, but these days he has also turned banker – banker of seeds, that is, and especially of millet strains. Yet while his is Karnataka's first seed bank to be set up by an individual farmer, it is only one of the signs of the millet's creeping comeback in the agricultural sector of this southern Indian state. The welcome trend is partly due to the efforts of Sahaja Samrudha (Bountiful Nature), an organisation working ......
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Farmers Push Comeback of ‘Cereal of the Poor’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 18th, 2010
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