Technologies of millet value added products

Dayakar Rao, B and Sangappa, . and Vishala, A.D. and Arlene Christina, G.D. and Tonapi, V.A. (2016) Technologies of millet value added products. ICAR- Indian Institute of Millets Research, Hyderabad. ISBN ISBN81-89335-61-8

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Abstract

Millet crops primarily constitute a diverse group of small grains. These are categorized under Coarse Cereals in India. Millets are classified in to major millets and minor millets or small millets. Millets are important crops for dryland farmers; they are highly nutritious and are a climatecompliant crop. But due to drudgery in preparation, overall millet consumption in India has declined over the years. In order to revive the demand of millets in India, there is need to bring all the stakeholders in production to consumption system value chain. The ICAR-IIMR (formerly DSR) has made attempts to innovate technologies that enable in developing sorghum/millet based value added products through NAIP subproject, ‘Creation of Demand throughPCS MilletsValueChain’. In view of decreasing millets consumption, efforts have been made to integrate all the stakeholders to bring them on a common platform so as to create demand for millet cultivation which is popularly known as value chain mode from ICAR- IIMR. In order to make millet value chain sustainable, the production and promotion of various products in the market is very much essential. Under this motto, IIMR (erstwhile DSR) launched its brand name “Eatrite” to the Indian markets to promote the millet based products and this book gives details of millets technologies developed at Centre of Excellence (CoE) onSorghum under NFSM project of Department of Agriculture. This book comprehensively deals with the millet based value addition technologies developed and commercialized from the Centre of Excellence (CoE), ICAR-IIMR. This resourceful publication act as a reference book for the all the millets stakeholders including would-be entrepreneurs who initiate millets based processing units. Eventually, I congratulate Dr. B. DayakarRao, Principal Scientist and his team for bringing out this book and appreciate the efforts they have put in the process.

Item Type: Book
Uncontrolled Keywords: Millet, small grains, cereals, minor millets,small millets
Author Affiliation: Center of Excellence on Sorghum Indian Institute of Millets Research, Hyderabad
Subjects: Plant Production
Divisions: Millet
Depositing User: Mr T L Gautham
Date Deposited: 20 Sep 2017 04:30
Last Modified: 20 Sep 2017 04:30
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/15062

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