Vol. 9, Issue 10 (2020)

Author(s):
Sumit Chaudhary, PS Negi, Alankar Singh, R K Prasad, Pallavi, Ajay Kumar and Rajesh Kaushal

Abstract:
Millets are important crop in relation to health/nutritional security and climate change and are well adopted in the farming system of most of farmers with small land holdings. The higher water use efficiency and lesser input requirements of millets for its cultivation again make them a wonderful crop for ecological balance/sustainability as compared to other cereals. The health benefits of millets are one of the reasons for increasing demand of millets in today’s scenario. Being as short duration crop (Most millets), they also act as a contingent crop in the situation of natural calamities like drought and flood and are also one of the important climate resilient crops.