UAS to digitise sale & procurement of millet

Mandya: The University of Agriculture Sciences (UAS) is experimenting the possibilities to digitise the procurement and sale of finger millet, said UAS vice chancellor Dr S Rajendraprasad.
Addressing the finger miller producers, vendors and agriculture faculty at the International Level Finger Millet Conference held at Zonal Agriculture Research Station, VC Farm, Mandya on Saturday, Prasad said the UAS has been trying to bring out a singular digital platform for finger millet producers and vendors to procure and sell their product.
“The current system has several anomalies. The government has stipulated to sell the millet under Minimum Supportive Price (MSP) system and it is causing trouble to small scale farmers. To overcome all these anomalies in finger millet marketing, UAS has been successfully experimenting the possibilities of digitize the finger millet marketing,” Prasad said.
Prasad said UAS is fully committed to take further extensive research on finger millet and the conference has provided opportunities to agriculture scientists and finger millet producers to expand their experiences. “We are determined to conduct more research about finger millet crops,” Prasad added.
He said that the millet farmers are being given lesser price for their crops and UAS will help them get scientific price by educating them about marketing and growing good crops.