millets - good for the planet
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MILLETSGOOD FOR THE PLANET
In drier and warmer climate, millets are more adapted.
Millets can grow with no or
little fertilizers and pesticides
A CROP TO BRING DIVERSITY ON FARM FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE Easier to grow for poor farmers with difficult access to inputs. Greater crop diversity on farm reduces pests, climate risks, improving farmers’ overall resilience.
HARDY AND DROUGHT TOLERANTMillets are often the only cereal crops that can grow in
arid lands.
Only needs350-400 mmanual rain
With global warming, 40% of land where we grow maize in sub-Saharan Africa may not support that crop by 2030.Millet survives better than maize in drought conditions. We will need drought-tolerant alternatives like millets.
Need less water
than other cereals
350 mm
350 mm
450 mm400
mm500 mm
600 mm
1250 mm
2100 mm
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Millet
Pearl M
illet
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m
Ground
nut
Maize
Cotton
Rice
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ane
HEAT TOLERANT Some pearl millets survive at temperatures up to 64°C.
64°C
FOOD SOLUTION IN A CHANGING CLIMATE
GROW FASTER Some millets need 60-65 days to mature against 100-140 days for wheat.
60 to 65 days 100 to
140 days
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