Replacing Rice With Millets Could Improve India’s Food Scarcity

Replacing Rice With Millets Could Improve India’s Food Scarcity

A research indicates that India can benefit considerably on multiple fronts such as nutritional security, energy consumption, and water shortage and even cut its greenhouse gas emissions if it promotes the cultivation of less water consuming and nutritious crops such as finger millet, pearl millet, and sorghum. With the majority of the malnourished population in the world and receding groundwater level India needs to adopt sustainable agriculture methods that can improve the food shortage and contribute to water conservation.

Disclaimer: The above article has been aggregated by a computer program and summarised by an Steamdaily specialist. You can read the original article at phys

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