ADDRESSING PRODUCTION
BARRIERS IN MINOR MILLETS
V.VEERABADRAN
YIELD GAP IN MINOR MILLETS IN TAMILNADU
2007-08 (Kg/ha)
Crop
Variety Potential Actual
Foxtail
Co 7
1855
469
Kodo
APK 1
2400
1469
Little
Co 4
2820
1002
Barnyard Co KV
2
2114
NA
Proso
1893
NA
TNAU
164
YIELD GAP
YIELD
LEVEL
Potential
Achievable/ Actual /
Experimental Farm
FACTORS
Plant
Soil
Climate
Soil
Climate
Resource
management
Biotic /Abiotic
stress
Socioeconomic
PRODUCTION CONSTRAINTS
• Marginal environment
• Poor returns
• Local varieties & traditional
management
• Non-adoption of technology
• Poor promotion
Production constraints
• Drudgery in processing
• Consumption associated with poverty
• Reduced demand due to shifts in
consumption habits
• Lack of government initiatives
IN FAVOUR OF MINOR MILLETS
• Resilience to thrive in harsh
environment
• Nutritious and health food
• Multiple use as food, feed, fodder,
neutraceutical, industrial, soil health
• Short duration C4 crops for arid and
semiarid tracts
• Climate change ready crops
• Crops for agro-biodiversity
REQUIREMENTS FOR
REVIVAL
Genetic Improvement
Resource management
technology
Enlarging demand and
market
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
TECHNOLOGY
• Conflict of interest
• constraint visualisation
• more grain per unit area, time,
water and energy
• Best suited agroecosystem
• Culturable
wastelands
• Cultural
management
• Best cropping
system
• Low input, Low or no
cost technology
• Organic production
INDEX NUMBER
Crop
AREA
PRODUCTIVITY
Foxtail millet
16.7
106
Kodo millet
14.4
124
Little millet
33.5
114
ENLARGING DEMAND AND MARKET
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Value addition
Cattle and poultry feed
Industrial use
Expand consumption zone
Sell in PDS
Nutrition and Health foods
Integration of all aspects
Change in nomenclature
Link up with other partners
BROWN
REVOLUTION