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Enhancing Millet Production Technology for the Farmer
Community: A Pathway to Sustainable Agriculture

Introduction: temperate, subtropical and tropical regions. The
most important species are sorghum, pearl millet,
Millet is a staple crop for millions of people finger millet, proso millet and foxtail millet. This
worldwide, including farmers. As a crucial staple article explores various aspects of millet production
crop, millet cultivation has gained significant technology, covering land preparation, seed
attention in recent years due to its nutritional selection, planting techniques, water management,
benefits, resilience to climate change, and integrated pest and disease control, and post-
suitability for sustainable agriculture. However, harvest management. Through the adoption of
due to the low yields, high resource use, and poor advanced production techniques such as proper
food security of the farmer community, the farmer land preparation and seed selection and treatment,
needs to improve its production technology. appropriate seeding techniques, efficient irrigation,

Millet is a collective term referring to several and integrated pest management, farmers can
small-seeded annual grasses cultivated as grain maximize millet production, increase their income,
crops, primarily on marginal lands in dry areas in and contribute to food security and environmental
sustainability.