Studies on nutritional benefits and value addition in small millets under Bundelkhand Region

Abstract

Small-grained cereal grasses are collectively called as ‘Millets’, being one of the oldest cultivated foods known to humans. There are two main groups of millets first group consist of major millets (sorghum and pearl millet) and second group has small millets this categorization is based on the grain size, this classification is also an indication of the area under cultivation of these crops, but both (major and small millets) have traditionally been the main components of the food basket of the poor people in India, especially in dry-land farming system in India and elsewhere.