Presentation on Indian makeover of Millets - from staple food to health food at University of Groningen, Netherland
Review meeting of biofortification chaired by Dr. Sr Voleti, Director, IIRR
Deliberations betwwen IIMR and ICRISAT with Dr. Kiran Sharma, DDG, ICRISAT
Visit of Dr. Raghava Rao, Director, CFTRI for Collaboration between IIMR and CFTRI on millet value addition
Visit of Dr. Raghava Rao, Director, CFTRI to Centre of Excellance, IIMR
Announcements:
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...
National Year of Millets - 2018
Marvelous Millets : The climate resilient smart crops (click on photo for nutritional info)
Millets : Ancient supergrains - A healthy choice
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