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MINOR MILLETS
Facilitation
Unit
for Underutilized
Species

enabling deployment of underutilized species


What are Minor Millets and where do they come from?
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Minor millets (as opposed to other millets like pearl millet and
sorghum) are also described as nutritious millets and have received
far less research and development attention than other crops with
regard to crop improvement, cultivation practices and utilization.
They include finger millet (Eleusine coracana) foxtail or Italian
millet (Setaria italica), kodos millet(Paspalum scrobiculatum),
common or proso millet (Panicum miliaceum),little millet(Panicum
sumatrense),and barnyard or sawa millet(Echinochloa utilis).
Minor millets account for less than one percent of the food grains
produced in the world today. Thus they are not important in terms of
the overall world food production, but they are strategic in terms of
their nutritional contribution, and their role in local agro-ecosystems.
They are mostly grown in marginal areas or under agricultural
conditions where major cereals would fail to give sustainable yields.
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MINOR MILLETS

Achieving social and ecological sustainability


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The exhibits on show are just few
of many commercial products made from Millets:
Little millet grain
Italian millet grain
Millet flour

SOME PRODUCERS / RETAILERS / DISTRIBUTORS


 Self Help Group of Minor Millet Growers, Chinnamangalam,
Alathur Nadu, Kolli hills, India.
Azienda Agricola Podere Pereto – www.poderepereto.it
Alce Nero – www.alcenero.it
KI Group Spa – www.kigroup.com
Il Fior di Loto Srl – www.fiordiloto.it

Photographs by: Stefano Padulosi, Paul Bordoni and Sekhara Pillai Bala Ravi
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