Millet is a crop that can be grown in regions with scarcity of water.
It has a wide variety of crops like sorghum (jowar), pearl millet (bajra), finger millet (ragi), kodo millet (kodon), foxtail millet (kakum), little millet (kutki), proso millet (barri) and barnyard millet (sanwe).
Low income group people who do not own large plots of land or who cannot provide irrigation facilities to their fields can find this to be an economical.