Millets

Featuring cutting-edge research, empirical data, and global case studies, this essential guide reveals how to overcome key production and processing bottlenecks to unleash the full nutritional and economic potential of millets.

Millets are high-value, gluten-free agronomic crops renowned for their superior nutritional profiles, offering rich concentrations of protein, dietary fiber, essential minerals, and calcium relative to conventional staples like wheat and rice. Beyond their dietary benefits, millets exhibit exceptional agronomic resilience, characterized by drought tolerance and pest resistance.

Despite a recent global resurgence in millet cultivation across developing economies, scaling production and adoption requires addressing systemic bottlenecks, including limited access to quality seed stock, inadequate post-harvest storage, constrained market channels, and underfunded research frameworks. This book provides a rigorous examination of the multidimensional challenges limiting millet production and processing globally.

Through cutting-edge research, empirical data, and international case studies, this volume details advances in food bioprocessing, novel product formulation, and emerging post-harvest technologies necessary to optimize the millet value chain and enhance global food security.