Millet mission: An insight toward healthy environment

Abstract

Millets are a group of highly valuable small seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for human food and as fodder. In India, millets have been mentioned in some of the oldest Yajurveda texts, identifying foxtail millet (priyangava), Barnyard millet (aanava) and black finger millet (shyaamaka), thus indicating that millet consumption was very common, pre-dating to the Indian Bronze Age (4,500BC). Millets however lack few of the nutrients critically important for a person’s body. Millet is one of the oldest crops known to mankind both the ancestor and the location of domestication of millets are unknown. It was believed that millet was cultivated during the Neolithic period in China , where farmers plant the prosomillet  during the second Chinese dynasty . Now a days millets plays an important role in the diet of India and all over the world.  Millet production decreased and almost disappeared by the beginning of 20th century.

Key words : Millets , nourishment soil conservation climate and environment.