AgroScience Today, Volume 4, Issue 4 : 0573-0575
POPULAR ARTICLES

OPEN ACCESS | Published on : 30-Apr-2023

Nutri-Cereals: Lifeline for Humans

  • Anjitha George
  • Senior Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Seed Science, Regional Station, GKVK Campus, India.
  • Bhojaraja Naik K
  • Senior Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Seed Science, Regional Station, GKVK Campus, India.
  • Ramya Parakkunnel
  • Senior Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Seed Science, Regional Station, GKVK Campus, India.
  • Vanishree Girimalla
  • Senior Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Seed Science, Regional Station, GKVK Campus, India.
  • Shantharaja CS
  • Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Seed Science, Regional Station, GKVK Campus, India.
  • Anandan A
  • Principal Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Seed Science, Regional Station, GKVK Campus - 560065, India.

Abstract

Food habits have been one of the biggest changes owing to concerns over human health. We forgot our indigenous foods and were chasing standardisation. In this regard, millets were once considered too primitive to be used, forgetting our own roots. But today a lot of efforts are being put to increase the demand of millets in India and the world, including changing the mind-set of the people.

Keywords

Nutri-Cereals, millets, Food habits, Humans

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