Millets and Millet Technology, 1st ed. 2021

Millets are small-grained, annual, warm weather cereal. The millets offer both nutritional and livelihood security of human population and fodder security of diverse livestock population in dryland region of India. Millets are highly nutritious, they are known as health foods especially for control of diabetes and mineral deficiencies. One of the major factors for declining consumption of millets is the lack of awareness of their nutritive value and inconvenience of their preparation.

This book covers both, chemistry and novel technology for millet processing and development. It summarizes the latest information on millets, their nutritional and health benefits, historical perspective, utilization, R&D efforts, present status and the importance being given by policy makers for promoting millets for sustainable agriculture and healthy society. The book is compiled by various experts keeping in view syllabi of different research institutions, researchers, students as well requirement of the industry. It will serve as instructional material for researchers in food science, microbiology, process engineering, biochemistry, biotechnology and reference material for those working in industry and R & D labs.

Manoj Kumar Tripathi is currently working as Principal Scientist at ICAR-Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal, India. He has 17 years of research, teaching and administrative experience. His major areas of professional interest include medicinal compounds, functional Food, nutraceutical, probiotic fermented food, food safety and food quality. He has published more than 80 research papers and 85 abstracts in International and National journal of repute, more than 40 book chapters, 30 popular articles. He has authored/edited 12 books and 5 technical bulletins. He has been recipient of several prestigious awards and honours. He is also working as an editor-In-chief, editor and member of editorial board of more than 10 reputed National and International journals.

Dinesh Joshi is currently working as Senior Scientist at ICAR-Vivekananda Institute of Hill Agriculture, Almora, Uttarakhand, India. He worked on

Discusses the current research and development in the field of millet nutrition, processing aspects, and novel processing technologies

Introduces some value added products in human health and omics approach for improvement and entrepreneurship development

Covers important aspects such as nanotechnology, biotechnology and bioinformatics along with processing technologies