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Underutilized Climate-Smart Nutrient Rich Small Millets for Food and Nutritional Security

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Title Underutilized Climate-Smart Nutrient Rich Small Millets for Food and Nutritional Security
 
Creator Upadhyaya, H D
Vetriventhan, M
 
Subject Agriculture
Crop Improvement
Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
Cereals
Millets
Drylands Agriculture
Genetics and Genomics
Food and Nutrition
Food Security
Germplasm Collection
 
Description Small millets such as finger millet, foxtail millet, proso millet, kodo millet, little millet and barnyard millet
are considered as climate-smart and nutrient rich crops. They have diverse adaptation and play an important
role in food and nutritional security in rural households in areas where these crops are grown globally. However,
their presence in the food basket has been declining over the years, mainly because of the increased availability
of rice and wheat, lack of crop improvement efforts in developing high yielding cultivars, and lack of modern
technologies for processing and utilization. Over the last few years, there is an increasing recognition of their
nutrient composition and benefits as healthy food. Considering their diverse adaption and agronomic and
health benefits, small millets could be an alternate/supplement crop to widen food basket to ensure food, feed
and nutritional security. More research effort in germplasm collecting, conserving, evaluating and utilizing, and
developing high yielding cultivars, processing and utilization technologies, and policy innervations are required
to promote small millets cultivation, and for food and nutritional security of vulnerable population under climate
change scenario for sustainable agriculture.
 
Publisher Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI)
 
Contributor Tyagi, R K
Pandey, A
Agrawal, A
Varaprasad, K S
Paroda, R S
Khetarpal, R K
 
Date 2018
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10747/1/124%20-%20135.pdf
Upadhyaya, H D and Vetriventhan, M (2018) Underutilized Climate-Smart Nutrient Rich Small Millets for Food and Nutritional Security. In: Regional Expert Consultation on Underutilized Crops for Food and Nutritional Security in Asia and the Pacific – Thematic, Strategic Papers and Country Status Reports. Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI), Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 109-120. ISBN 978-616-7101-10-1