A Study on Cultivation and Marketing Practices of Millet Growers in Erode District

Value added products from Agriculture has been playing a premier category of economic development of India as well as futuristic trend of economic viability of farmers and preferable choice of buying product by the consumers. In this dimension, millet cultivation is premier cereals crops which will be treated as subsistence and livelihood source of small growers in India. Especially, Southern part of India has occupied predominantly from the Millet cultivation. Despite of, flexible in nature of cultivation and secure of income and foodgrain utilised cultivation while compared with other vegetables, a larger number of issues faced by the farmers recently. Western part of Tamilnadu zone is one of the fertile lands and received both South west monsoon and North East monsoon for ample of resources and channel for more peculiarities on logistics for sale of Millet which is carried out cultivation and procured from the Millet Growers. At the same time, the Growers will become a part of trading activities in order to equip their sale for earning profit. This paper has highlighted the issues from observation and empirical in nature with find solution for value added products of Millet inErode District.