For us, what we harvest is what we believe. This promising crop of millet even in this drought year proves one point. Just look at my crop, if I get one round of rainfall I am assured of 1.5 tonnes per hectare of harvest. If not, at least 600 kg per hectare will be there. Good enough, unlike others who will harvest none at all.
Soil fertility is the key to our success.
He is a progressive farmer. He knows the importance of soil nutrition. His close interaction with scientists and agricultural extension personnel has given him many opportunities to experiment with several inputs on his 3.5-hectare holding. He has on-farm trials demonstrating the various treatments and controls, the proper cropping pattern, as well as various improved and local varieties of pearl millet. You can see the grain heads for yourselves, and that is the index of the final yield.