Millets for Sustainable Agriculture and Nutritional Security

Abstract

Increasing population creates a pressure to meet the quality food, and presents a challenge to explore the feasible options to get the potential food sources to meet the increasing food demand. Underutilized crops like millet are the prominent options to meet the food demand as well as to reduce malnutrition. Improved processing and utilization techniques will give out more value added products of wide acceptance in rural as well as urban areas. Thus, it may be important food crop worldwide with a markable impact on economic as well as health. Millets have variety of desired characterises such as drought and pest resistance, rich in nutrients and minerals helps in abolishing malnutrition, potential prebiotic and probiotics which have several health advantages etc. It must be considered as potential food to meet the future demand in terms of quality as well as quantity.