The Forgotten Foods: Millet Based Food Products and Technological Advances in its Processing for Strengthening the Green Economy

Millets are a small-seeded nutritious super crop of our ancestors which was forgotten while promoting green revolution in India. Technological advances in food and allied products processing have led to traditionally known nutritional and new therapeutic uses of millets. Millets crops are key to the problem of food security challenges of India. These 'green foods' offers great opportunity to tackle problems of nutrition security and unsustainable global production. Millets can act as a tool to reverse climate degradation, low productivity, and rising poverty. Transformation in the agricultural sector, innovation of newer technologies and the development of value chain is essential for millet utilization and thus the development of the green economy.