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“Selling value-added millet products has been challenging due to low initial market acceptance, which made supply chain management difficult”

“Selling value-added millet products has been challenging due to low initial market acceptance, which made supply chain management difficult”

Ajay Kangralkar, Founder, SkyRoots Ventures While the demand for millet-based food products is steadily growing across consumer, institutional, and export segments, the industry still faces several structural challenges. These include inconsistent raw material supply, limited

Feature
Why Millet Processing Tech Needs Rapid Innovation

Why Millet Processing Tech Needs Rapid Innovation

India’s millet moment has arrived — but beneath the surface of this nutritious grain’s resurgence lie critical operational roadblocks that innovators are quietly solving. From inconsistent flour textures and machine incompatibility to the lack of

Research
IIT Roorkee researchers develop millet-based edible straws

IIT Roorkee researchers develop millet-based edible straws

A revolutionary step towards reducing single-use plastic and promoting sustainable living Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) have developed an innovative solution by creating edible straws made from barnyard millets. This

Policy
ICRISAT, Bihar Government and local partners advance food and nutrition security

ICRISAT, Bihar Government and local partners advance food and nutrition security

The Centre is set to reshape Bihar’s food systems, with ICRISAT and its partners directly addressing the state’s food and nutritional security needs With a groundbreaking focus on food and nutrition security, the Bihar Centre

Policy
ICAR-IIMR, Hyderabad dedicates millet processing unit to Karnataka FPO

ICAR-IIMR, Hyderabad dedicates millet processing unit to Karnataka FPO

The processing unit will offer a range of services, including cleaning, de-hulling, and packaging, ensuring that millets are processed to meet the highest industry standards The Millets processing & custom hiring centre was inaugurated at

Policy
PM releases 109 high-yielding, climate-resilient varieties of crops

PM releases 109 high-yielding, climate-resilient varieties of crops

The 109 varieties of 61 crops released by the Prime Minister included 34 field crops and 27 horticultural crops Prime Minister Narendra Modi released 109 high-yielding, climate and biofortified varieties of crops at India Agricultural

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Can Millet Replace Meat?

Can Millet Replace Meat?

By Padma Ishwarya S, Senior Scientist, Good Food Institute India (GFI India) Once known as the ‘poor man’s crop,’ the humble millets have certainly come a long way to now being celebrated as a superfood

Food
Lenovo helps revive 6 lost millet varieties in Kerala

Lenovo helps revive 6 lost millet varieties in Kerala

Develops a tech-based prototype model for millet revival and helps establish market linkages Lenovo, the global technology powerhouse, announced the successful culmination of its Work for Humankind Initiative, with six millet varieties making a comeback

Food
Nutrihub unveils millet look-alike rice to boost millet consumption

Nutrihub unveils millet look-alike rice to boost millet consumption

The initiative millets look-alike rice aims to transform millets into rice-shaped grains to enhance their acceptance among those accustomed to traditional rice consumption Revealing a groundbreaking innovation in millet research during an interactive session with

Food
ICRISAT joins forces with Assam millet mission to enhance food systems

ICRISAT joins forces with Assam millet mission to enhance food systems

At the heart of the partnership is Assam's goal of boosting the cultivation, production and consumption of three native millet crops: Finger millet (Maruadhan), Foxtail millet (Kauni Dhan), and Proso millet (Cheena Bajra) The International Crop Research