:: Indian Institute of Millets Research(IIMR) ::

Dr. Elangovan briefing about the available indigenous pearlmillet germplasm to the participants
Participants actively selecting pearl millet germplasm
Members of QRT on pearlmillet interacting with IIMR scientists on pearl millet germplasm
ICRISAT scientist interacting with QRT members & IIMR scientists on the pearl millet improvement
Digital Field Book training on Pearl Millet in progress

Announcements:

Important Notice reg. Technician (T-1) Examination - 2016 :: International Proso Millet Symposium, 8-13 August 2018 in Fort Collins, CO, USA ::

About the research centre

Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR) upgraded from Directorate of Sorghum Research (DSR), is the central agency to work on all aspects of millets research and development under the auspeces of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). While the main centre at Hyderabad campus is principally engaged in both basic and strategic research on millets, region-specific research and services are organized through two other centres - Solapur in Maharashtra and OSN, Warangal in Telangana.

About Millets

Millets are ancient Super grains the reservoirs of nutrition for a better health. Millets (sorghum, pearl millet and small millets) are the important food and fodder crops in semi-arid regions... More

Mandate

To conduct basic and strategic research to increase productivity of millets and their diversified utilization for enhancement of profitability...

Technologies

The millet based varietal and value added technologies encompassing the products, processes and packages may be utilized to enhance income to the millet growing farmers, processors and millet based industries...

Marvelous Millets : The climate resilient smart crops (click on photo for nutritional info)