Cabi Millets Value Chain for Nutritional Security: A Replicable Success Model from India

The development of successful value chains to revive demand for traditional cereals such as millets plays an important role in ensuring health and nutrition security in India. This book is the first to demonstrate a successful and sustainable model for value addition to millets from production to consumption.Based on practical experience and the output of a National Agricultural Innovation Project, Value Chain in Millets for Health and Nutritional Security: A Replicable Success Model from India explores the development of an integrated approach to value addition to millets. All phases of the model are covered, including chapters on nutritional evaluation, on-farm cultivation, intervention in food processing, entrepreneurship development, commercialization and popularization and policy sensitization.This book outlines practical interventions to revive the demand for millets as a convenient and nutritive option for consumers, whilst presenting a reliable model that can be adapted for the development of other commodities.