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Lesser grains: Can millet save the hungry millions? [1]

Lesser grains: Can millet save the hungry millions?
BY VIKRAM DOCTOR

A FEW months back when the food crisis was big news and there was much agonising about inadequate supplies of rice, wheat and corn, I remember thinking, well what about eating millet instead? It

Publication Date: 
06/09/2008
Economic Times (New Delhi) [2]
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Food Crops [3], Starvation [4], Food Stress [5], Poverty [6], India [7]
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