Minor Millets as a Central Element for Sustainably Enhanced Incomes, Empowerment, and Nutrition in Rural India

Padulosi, S.; Mal, Bhag; King, Oliver I.; Gotor, Elisabetta

doi:10.3390/su7078904

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“…The M.S Swaminathan Foundation has requested an amended policy to investigate small millets and their potential role for climate-smart agriculture [88]. The report by Padulosi et al (2015) also showed the importance of minor millets including PM in economic and nutritional sustainability of rural India. The majority of the Indian population is economically unable to afford an expensive balanced diet [89].…”

Section: Socio-economic Aspect Of Milletmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Bird Feed: Proso Millet for Human Health and Environment

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Domesticated in 8000–10,000 BP in northern China, proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) is the best adaptive rotational crop for semiarid central High Plains of the USA, where average annual precipitation is 356–407 mm. Proso millet has multiple benefits when consumed as human food. Proso millet is rich in minerals, dietary fiber, polyphenols, vitamins and proteins. It is gluten-free and therefore, ideal for the gluten intolerant people. Proso millet contains high lecithin which supports the neural health system. It is rich in vitamins (niacin, B-complex vitamins, folic acid), minerals (P, Ca, Zn, Fe) and essential amino acids (methionine and cysteine). It has a low glycemic index and reduces the risk of type-2 diabetes. Unfortunately, in the USA, it is mostly considered as bird feed, whereas it is mainly used as human food in many other countries. Besides human health benefits, proso millet has an impeccable environmental benefit. Proso millet possesses many unique characteristics (e.g., drought tolerance, short-growing season) which makes it a promising rotational crop for winter wheat-based dryland farming systems. Proso millet provides the most economical production system when used in a two years wheat/summer fallow cropping system in semiarid High Plains of the USA. It helps in controlling winter annual grass weeds, managing disease and insect pressure and preserving deep soil moisture for wheat. Proso millet can also be used as a rotational crop with corn or sorghum owing to its tolerance for atrazine, the primary herbicide used in corn and sorghum production systems. Proso millet certainly is a climate-smart, gluten-free, ancient, and small grain cereal, which is healthy to humans and the environment. The main challenge is to expand the proso millet market beyond bird feed into the human food industry. To overcome the challenge, unique proso millet varieties for human food and ready-to-use multiple food products must be developed. This requires successful collaboration among experts from diverse disciplines such as breeders, geneticists, food chemists and food industry partners.

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Section: Socio-economic Aspect Of Milletmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Bird Feed: Proso Millet for Human Health and Environment

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“…Development and further refinement of dryland crop production approaches and strategic substitutions of water demanding crops with drought adapted crops can enhance the sustainability of future agricultural production in regions without a reliable supply of water [3,4]. Several species of millets are cultivated primarily in marginal agronomic environments due to their high-water use efficiency and can be grown in arid environments ranging from 200 mm to over 500 mm of average annual rainfall [1].…”

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Phenotypic Responses of Twenty Diverse Proso Millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) Accessions to Irrigation

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Abstract:To date, little research has been conducted on the phenotypic responses of proso millet to drought and deficit irrigation treatments in the dryland wheat-based cropping systems of the Palouse bioregion of the U.S. The objectives of this study were to evaluate critical agronomic traits of proso millet, including emergence, plant height, days to heading, days to maturity, and grain yield, with and without supplemental irrigation. Twenty diverse proso millet accessions, originating from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Morocco, the former Soviet Union, Turkey, and the United States, were grown in irrigated and non-irrigated treatments under organic conditions in Pullman, WA, from 2012 to 2014. Irrigation was shown to significantly improve emergence and increase plant height at stem extension and to hasten ripening of all the varieties, whereas heading date was not affected by irrigation in two of the three years tested. Irrigation resulted in higher mean seed yield across all varieties, with 'GR 665' and 'Earlybird' performing best under irrigation. Seed yield was highest in 'GR 658' and 'Minsum' in the non-irrigated treatment, suggesting the importance of identification and utilization of varieties adapted to low rainfall conditions. The highest yielding varieties in irrigated systems are unlikely be the highest yielding in dryland systems. Our results suggest that millet has potential as a regionally novel crop for inclusion in traditional dryland cropping rotations in the Palouse ecosystem, thereby contributing to increased cropping system diversity.

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“…Among small millets, finger millet is the main crop (>80% of the total small millets produced in India) cultivated over 1.3 Mha in India, with an annual production of 1.5 Mt (global annual production of finger millet is 4.5 Mt). In contrast, the remaining area under small millets (0.97 Mha) has produced 0.46 Mt (Padulosi et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 89%

“…The Panicoideae and Chloridoideae subfamily consisting of the small millets were shaded in yellow and green, respectively (color figure available online). area under small millets including finger millet cultivation in India is roughly 2.3 Mha, which is 12% of the area under coarse cereal cultivation (Padulosi et al, 2015). Among small millets, finger millet is the main crop (>80% of the total small millets produced in India) cultivated over 1.3 Mha in India, with an annual production of 1.5 Mt (global annual production of finger millet is 4.5 Mt).…”

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confidence: 99%

Genetic and Genomic Resources of Small Millets

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Small millets are very promising agricultural entity to ensure global food security. They gained remarkable importance in agriculture due to their resilience to climatic changes and increasing demand for nutritious food and feed. The genetic variability in the core and mini-core germplasm of small millets was characterized for nutritional composition and capacity to tolerate abiotic stresses that can be infused in breeding programs. Other than the foxtail millet, availability of genomic information in small millets is far below the mark for use in marker-assisted breeding and other genetic improvement programs. The genome sequence of foxtail millet has recently triggered a plethora of post-genomic analysis and envisaged foxtail millet as a model organism for the C 4 grasses and bioenergy research. Recent developments in the next-generation sequencing technologies enabled us, with the simultaneous discovery of high-throughput markers and multiplexed genotyping of germplasm, to speedup markerassisted breeding. In this context, an in-depth analysis of the wealth of diverse germplasm resources and future perspectives of integrating genomics in genome-wide marker-trait association and breeding in small millets is worthy. ABBREVIATIONS cDNA D complementary DNA cM D centimorgan DREB D dehydration response element binding FAO D Food and Agricultural Organization ICAR D Indian Council of Agricultural Research ICRISAT D International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics Mb D mega basepairs Mha D million hectares Mt D million tonnes Mya D million years ago NARS D National Agricultural Research System NCBI D National Center for Biotechnology Information NGS D next-generation sequencing PCR D polymerase chain reaction PGR D plant genetic resources SNP D single nucleotide polymorphism SSR D simple sequence repeat QTLs D quantitative trait loci

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Minor Millets as a Central Element for Sustainably Enhanced Incomes, Empowerment, and Nutrition in Rural India

Cited by 71 publications

References 11 publications

Beyond Bird Feed: Proso Millet for Human Health and Environment

Beyond Bird Feed: Proso Millet for Human Health and Environment

Phenotypic Responses of Twenty Diverse Proso Millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) Accessions to Irrigation

Genetic and Genomic Resources of Small Millets

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