Millets: 2025 AID Calendar

Millets: Ancient Grain, Future Promise

Display the 2025 AID calendar “Millets” in your home or office or gift it to a friend. Celebrate the ancient grain that holds the promise of the future while also being inspired by snapshots of work that AID and partners are engaged with throughout India.

Vivid photographs of farmers, fields, festivities and more showcase the beauty and diversity of millet.

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Seeds of self-reliance

No doubt you have heard about the economic, ecological, agricultural and nutritional benefits of millet in all its varieties. In recent years, it has become a staple in the grocery aisle and been seen popping up in recipe books and blogs. What might be news to you is that millet played a key role in the history of AID. One of our earliest projects back in the 1990s involved distribution of sprouted ragi (finger millet) flour to families whose young children were malnourished.

Over the years we have connected with organizations working in diverse fields including right to food, rations, health, livelihoods, land rights, water, climate, rehabilitation and caste and gender justice and found that they too promoted millet as it was connected in some way to their core mission.

Like a number of other ancient grains and heirloom vegetable varieties being rediscovered by our generation, millet offers the potential not only for personal health but also for ecological balance and a more just society. Especially when intercropped with a variety of pulses, vegetables and flowers that offer natural pest management, nourishment for the soil, and by-products for animals. This is how women in Anantapur District, trained by AID partner REDS have shown the path for women with holdings as small as 0.1 acre to grow over 20 crops to eat year-round, without amassing debt.