New book highlights the gold in millet

November 21, 2022 – Millet is gold. That is the impression Organic Impact co-founder Charles Wendo had today, upon completing reading the book ‘Millet Business Ideas – Empowering Millet Start-ups’.

The author, Tapas Chandra Roy, provides information on the importance and types millets, how to grow them, value addition and trade in millet. He includes inspirational real-life stories of successful entrepreneurs who are involved in millet processing, value addition and related services. He lists a good number of creative products that can be made with millet, for example millet chocolate and millet milk.

Whereas the book was written for the Indian audience, the content is relevant to Uganda. Millet is grown and consumed in most parts of Uganda. Most of the business ideas highlighted in Tapas’ book are doable in Uganda.

Tapas is an Indian Certified Farm Advisor on Millets. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture and a Master’s degree in Business Administration (Agri-Business Management). He works at the Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Empowerment, Government of Odisha State in India.