# Millets value chain

**Water budgeting at farm or village level:**

1. CSEI's playbook for water budgeting and jaltol v2
2. Paani foundation's samruddha gaon spardha
3. Wassan's playbook for water budgeting
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**Local history of millets in the area**&#x20;

1. Shortlist the varieties grown fifty years ago in village.
2. What were the uses and recipes?
3. How to find those indigenous seeds?
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**Processing - older techniques and modern solutions**

1. What were the older ways to process millets?
2. What are the latest small machines that can help process?

**Storage and value added product possibilities**

1. How to store millets safely for years.
2. What are the kinds of products that can be made locally?

**Local vs Global markets - product positioning**

1. Understanding demand of local markets
2. Understanding product demand of the city/export markets

**Purchasing seeds**

1. Shortlist and order from this directory of millets seed banks.
