Processing Machinery Enabling Millet Ecosystem, Branding and Farmgate Processing

Abstract

World is facing two giant challenges, out of which rst one is agrarian while second rests with health & nutritional encounters. Owing to very high population pressures and uncertain climate change conditions, majority of good farming lands have already been overexploited, and thus intensive farming is being done on inferior/dry lands to meet the due productions. Millets happened to be one of the sustained options in historic past, but with multiple reasons these vital crops were ignored. Necessity always remains the mother of inventions. Appearance of 2023 as World’s rst international millet year is self-speaking in this regard. Present paper very briey elaborates the past, present and futuristic technologic innovations and standings on millet-based R&D eorts at Global, Indian and Gujarat level. Millet based backgrounds are augmented with multiple sharing of relevant experiences including author’s own addon on the subject. A richer food of thought is oered to sensitize present and future domains of millet-based R&D elements dealing predominant millets and exploring their best potential benets via demand riven location specic architecture of technologic interventions by taking care of its whole cycle (growing to marketing) in a sustained and economic way.