5 Day Faculty Development Programme on Innovative Research on Millets for Food and Nutritional Security to commemorate International Year of Millets

Faculty development programme was organized with the theme ‘Innovative Research on Millets for Food and Nutritional Security’ from 26th of April 2023 to 30th April 2023. The Programme started with a brief introduction of different nutritional aspects of millets and developing new varieties of millets for resistance to stress, insect pest and diseases, agronomic practices, crop rotation, processing, value addition, product development and marketing. 

Key Points

• Novel business opportunities of millets
• Major disease of millets and its management
• Good agricultural practices in millets
• Insect pest of millets and their management
• Genetic improvement of millet for higher productivity and quality traits