How Women Are Powering Odisha’s Millet Revival and Seed Sovereignty
Before the monsoon reaches Odisha’s uplands, seed work begins indoors. In many millet-growing villages, women sit on mud floors with baskets of finger millet panicles stored from the previous harvest. Panicles are opened carefully, grain by grain. Some seeds are set aside because they are bold and mature early. Others are rejected because they are…