1Former Director, ICAR-Indian Institute of Millets Research, Hyderabad
2Principal Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Millets Research, Hyderabad
3Technical Consultant, Advanta SeedsHyderabad
Online Published on 23 May, 2023.
World is facing two giant challenges, out of which first 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 first international millet year is self-speaking in this regard. Present paper very briefly elaborates the past, present and futuristic technologic innovations and standings on millet-based R&D efforts 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 offered to sensitize present and future domains of millet-based R&D elements dealing predominant millets and exploring their best potential benefits via demand riven location specific architecture of technologic interventions by taking care of its whole cycle (growing to marketing) in a sustained and economic way.