Promoting Entrepreneurial Development through Millet Processing in Raichur District, Karnataka, India | Chapter 10 | Research Advances and Challenges in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 4

Millets are small grain crops and are also known as mighty millets because of their nutrients. Processing of millets provides an opportunity for income generation and also ensures food security to the family as well as to the animals through fodder. This paper explains the efforts made by KVK Raichur, University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur in promoting entrepreneurship development through primary and secondary processing, and value addition of millets and their role in income enhancement of farmers. The target population for this study comprised 50 beneficiaries from SHGs under the jurisdiction of UAS, Raichur, Karnataka, India. The major activities undertaken for the research population were the promotion of high yielding variety of foxtail millet (HMT-100-1 and Variety-SIA-2644), the development of value chains of nutritious millets, training women members of SHGs on value addition, establishing marketing linkages for the processed produce through demonstrations and trainings. It was found that the farmers whose lands do not possess an irrigation facility and have very poor fertility status had undertaken cultivation of millets and the KVK had linked them up to the processing unit of the Department of Processing and Food Engineering department for primary and secondary processing through demonstrations and training. It was found that farmers and SHGs gained technical know-how and ways to become entrepreneurs. Small millet crops are important for the food security and income of poor farmers in certain agroclimatic regions but it has not received adequate attention from the policymakers for the purpose of investment in their research and development. Poverty incidence can thus become reduced with increased investment in people, improving their quality and enhancing their employment prospects.

Author(s) Details:

Mouneshwari R. Kammar,
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, UAS, Dharwad-580005, India.

Vanishree S.,
Agricultural Extension Education Centre, Lingasugur, University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, India.

Udaykumar Nidoni,
Department of Processing and Food Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering, University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, India.

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Possibilities of Bioethanol Production from Millet Crops | Chapter 6| Research Advances and Challenges in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 2

As per official reports from India Ethanol procurement/blending under EBP programme increased from 38 Cr. litres in 2013-14 to 433.6 Cr. liters in 2021-22. Also, “Roadmap for Ethanol Blending in India 2020-25" laid out an annual plan to increase domestic ethanol production in line with goal of the amended National Policy on Biofuels (2018) as well as with its Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Programme to reach a blending of 20% of ethanol in petrol (E20) by 2025/26. So, there is indeed a need of finding different ways of ethanol production. 2023 is celebrated as International Millet Year by implicating different GOI, policies to promote millets. Moreover, after COVID-19 humanity is in search of gluten-free diet. So, in this context, millets a group of single seed plants particularly belonging to the Poaceae or Gramineae family emerged as the best nutritious crops and bio-ethanol producers. Different studies specified that millets can be effectively utilized for ethanol production with limited supply of input in water scarcity areas. Studies in the last decade reveal that a few types of millet such as Sorghum (Sweet Sorghum, Grain Sorghum, and Fodder Sorghum), Pearl millet, Finger millet, Proso millet, Foxtail millet, Barnyard millet and Little millet and husk of millets have good potential to become a component crop for high ethanol production. In the present study ethanol production capacity from different millet are reviewed. It can be concluded that there is a need of more research and development in all millet groups along with capacity building for development of processing distilleries. This will ensure sustainability in farmers income as and nutritional security.

Author(s) Details:

Dheeraj Shinde,
Agricultural Development Trust, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Pune-I (Baramati) -413115 (Maharashtra), India.

Karanje S. V.,
Agricultural Development Trust, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Pune-I (Baramati) -413115 (Maharashtra), India.

Godase S. S.,
Agricultural Development Trust, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Pune-I (Baramati) -413115 (Maharashtra), India.

Jagdale Y. L.,
Agricultural Development Trust, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Pune-I (Baramati) -413115 (Maharashtra), India.

Jadhav M. A.,
Agricultural Development Trust, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Pune-I (Baramati) -413115 (Maharashtra), India.

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Recent Advancement on Climate Resilient Millets for Food and Nutrition Security: Time to Promote for All Seasons | Chapter 3 | Current Perspectives on Chemical Sciences Vol. 9

 Millets are climate-resilient crops that can adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions, needing less irrigation and providing greater growth and productivity in low-nutrient input conditions with little reliance on artificial fertilisers and a reduced vulnerability to environmental stresses. Millets, which are nutritionally superior, are also limited to conventional customers and lower-income groups. To improve food and nutritional security, the value of millet groups as health foods must be resurrected. Millets have the ability to prevent cancer, reduce the prevalence of cardiovascular disorders, reduce tumour proliferation, lower blood pressure, reduce the risk of heart disease, cholesterol content, fat absorption rate, delayed gastric emptying, and improved gastrointestinal bulk due to their nutritive value. Millet grain value-adding as ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook products provides farmers with a good opportunity to increase their income, promotes production and marketing, and leads to nutritional stability, jobs, and revenue generation. These are nutritious, have health benefits, and need much less inputs and cultivation costs, as well as being naturally resistant to most biotic and abiotic stresses. Millets stand out as a crop of choice in the current climate because of these characteristics.

Author (s) Details

Dr. W. Jessie Suneetha
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, PJTSAU, Wyra 507165, Khammam, India.

Dr. J. Hemanth Kumar
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, PJTSAU, Wyra 507165, Khammam, India.

Dr. P. Jagan Mohan Rao
Regional Agricultural Research Station, PJTSAU, Warangal – 506006, India.

Dr. Y. G. Prasad
ICAR – ATARI, Zone X, CRIDA campus, Hyderabad 500 059, India.

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