ICAR-IIMR, Hyderabad Dedicates Millet Processing Unit to Karnataka FPO
3rd October 2024, Hyderabad The Millets processing & custom hiring center was inaugurated at Bettada Basaveshwara farmer’s producer organization (FPO) at Jakkaladinni Village of Sirwar Taluka, Raichur district, Karnataka. The unit offers the Millet Processing facility to local millet farmers at affordable charges. ICICI Foundation supported this project under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative […]
PAU Signed an Agreement to Promote Millet Processing and Marketing
Millets, an important cereal grains, have emerged as an alternative to the conventional major cereals due to the health and nutritional superiority. However, the processing of millets in convenience products is challenging. Keeping this in view, the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) inked a pact with RK Millet Delight, based at Kartarpur, for the licensing of […]
PAU and PGIMER, Chandigarh Hold Millet Quiz
A Millet Quiz was jointed organized by the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics (PBG), Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), and the Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, PGIMER Chandigarh, under the project ‘MERA’. The quiz, which was designed for the promotion of millets in the Punjab State, was organised during the Class […]
International Year of Millets-2023
Millets are rich source of nutrients, antioxidants and proteins. Beside that, they have the ability to sequester carbon thereby reducing the release of atmospheric CO2 thus contribute in mitigating climate change. On 9th March, 2023, The NSS unit of Polytechnic in Agricultural Engineering, Anand Agricultural University, Dahod organized awareness programme on International Year of Millets-2023 […]
The Center of Excellence on Small Millet’s
Centre of Excellence on Small Millets The Centre of Excellence on Small Millets (CoE-SM) was established at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru (UASB) by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi with a total budget of Rs. 124 lakhs from 2012-17, initially under INSIMP (2012-14) and later under NFSM […]
Society for Millets Research
Millets as a group of crops are represented by sorghum (jowar), pearl millet (bajra), finger millet (ragi), and minor millets like banyard millet, proso millet, Kodo millet, and foxtail millet. Being an excellent source of essential nutrients to the millions of rural poor in India, they are also called ‘nutritious cereals’. Millets are the staple […]
