Submitter: (ICRISAT)
Mechanization in millets is essential for enhancing productivity, reducing human drudgery, and lowering cultivation costs. It improves input efficiency, worker safety, and product quality. However, the lack of scale-appropriate mechanization solutions in minor millets for smallholder farmers and trained personnel is a major barrier to making agri-food systems more productive, profitable, resilient, and efficient.
The redesigned prototype was introduced in eight districts of south Bihar as well as 7 districts of Odisha for sowing millets and it has shown great potential for its adoption at landscape level. Thus, this prototype can be promoted across millet growing states in India as well as holds good promise to pilot and scale in Africa.
The adoption of this prototype for sowing small millets in Odisha and Bihar resulted in increased productivity of millets by 10-20 per cent compared to traditional broadcasting practice.
ICRISAT has expertise in adapting and promoting scale-appropriate mechanization for various crops (inlcluding small millets), cropping systems, and farm types for sustainable agriculture and food supply development.
Dr Gajanan Sawargaonkar, Phone:- 7702540820 Email- gajanan.sawargaonkar@icrisat.org
Dr Prasad Kamdi: Phone-9701060490 Email. Prasad.kamdi@icrisat.org@icrisat.org
Dr. Akshay Kumar Yogi: Phone-9636005448 Email. Akshay.yogi@icrisat.org Partners: OUAT, Odisha; RPCAU and BAU, Bihar
