The foodgrains that were being looked into were lentils, bajra, jowari and corn to name a few, he said.
Apart from soya and wheat, eChoupals will also cater to mustard, bajra and pulses and later horticultural produce over a period of time, he said.
We lived with a family that survived on bajra for weeks.
The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, then quick to recognise talent, involved him in a project on bajra, a millet around which much of desert culture revolves.
Indian agriculture is not just about wheat, rice and bajra or thuvar dal and moong.