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    MILLETS

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    This document is an assignment on millets submitted by Ansh Kumar, a third semester BSC Honors Botany student. It introduces millets as a group of small-grained, drought-tolerant cereal crops grown with low chemical inputs that are mostly native to India. Millets provide many nutrients and are classified as major or minor based on grain size. The Ministry of Agriculture recognizes the importance of millets like sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, and minor millets. Millets are gluten-free, non-allergenic, and high in fiber, which provides health benefits such as reducing cardiovascular disease risk.

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    This document is an assignment on millets submitted by Ansh Kumar, a third semester BSC Honors Botany student. It introduces millets as a group of small-grained, drought-tolerant cereal crops grown with low chemical inputs that are mostly native to India. Millets provide many nutrients and are classified as major or minor based on grain size. The Ministry of Agriculture recognizes the importance of millets like sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, and minor millets. Millets are gluten-free, non-allergenic, and high in fiber, which provides health benefits such as reducing cardiovascular disease risk.

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    This document is an assignment on millets submitted by Ansh Kumar, a third semester BSC Honors Botany student. It introduces millets as a group of small-grained, drought-tolerant cereal crops grown with low chemical inputs that are mostly native to India. Millets provide many nutrients and are classified as major or minor based on grain size. The Ministry of Agriculture recognizes the importance of millets like sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, and minor millets. Millets are gluten-free, non-allergenic, and high in fiber, which provides health benefits such as reducing cardiovascular disease risk.

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    MILLETS

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    Ansh Kumar
    This document is an assignment on millets submitted by Ansh Kumar, a third semester BSC Honors Botany student. It introduces millets as a group of small-grained, drought-tolerant cereal crops grown with low chemical inputs that are mostly native to India. Millets provide many nutrients and are classified as major or minor based on grain size. The Ministry of Agriculture recognizes the importance of millets like sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, and minor millets. Millets are gluten-free, non-allergenic, and high in fiber, which provides health benefits such as reducing cardiovascular disease risk.

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    ECONOMIC BOTANY

    ASSIGNMENT ON

    MILLETS
    ANSH KUMAR
    BSC.(HONS.) BOTANY, 3RD SEMESTER
    21/09064

    SUBMITTED TO:
    DR. VIJAY KUMAR
    INTRODUCTION
    Millets are group of small grained cereal food crops which are highly tolerant to
    drought and other extreme weather conditions and are grown with low chemical
    inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides. Most of millet crops are native of India
    and are popularly known as Nutri-cereals as they provide most of nutrients
    required for normal functioning of human body. Millets are classified into major
    millets and minor millets based on their grain size. Pseudo millets are so called
    because they are no part of the poaceae botanical family, to which 'true' grains.
    Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Walfare has recognised the importance of Millets and
    declared Millets comprising of Sorghum(Jowar), Pearl Millet(Bajra), Finger Millet(Ragi/Mandua),
    Minor Millets i.e. Foxtail Millets(kanngani/kakun), Proso Millet(cheena), Kodo Millet (Kodo),
    Brnyard Millet (Sawa/Sanwa/Jhangora), Little Millet (Kutki), Brown top millet and two pseudo
    millets i.e., Buck-Wheat (Kuttu), Amaranth (Chaulai) as "Nutri-Cereals" for Production,
    Consumption and trade point of view.

    Millets are gluten free and non-allergenic. Millet consumption decreases triglycerides aand C-
    reactive protein, thereby preventing cardiovascular disease. All millets are rich in dietary fibre.
    Dietary fibre has water absorbing and bulking property. It increases transmit time of food in the
    gut which helps in reducing risk of inflammatory bowel disease and acts as detoxyfying agent in
    body.
    Sorghum vulgare
    Sorghum vulgare (Jowar)
    uses
    Eleusine coracana (L) Gaertn.
    Finger Millet/Ragi
    Eleusine coracana (L) Gaertn.
    Finger Millet/Ragi
    uses
    Pennisetum typhoides L.
    Pearl Millet/Bajra
    Pennisetum typhoides L.
    Pearl Millet/Bajra

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