Millets play an important role in nutritional diet in many regions of the world. Despite the fact that millets are nutritionally better than other cereals, their involvement as food in diet is still generally limited to the poor and conventional people. Millets are good source of carbohydrates, energy and protein, fat iron, calcium and dietary fiber, which helps to prevent from many diseases like diabetes, cataract genesis and cardiovascular diseases. The environmental changes, water shortage, population increment, decreasing yields of major cereals, present a challenge to nutritionists and researchers to examine the potentials of production, processing and using another prospective food sources to end the poverty and hunger. The present paper reviews different postharvest technologies, processing and convenience food products prepared from millets.
Agriculture sector plays a remarkable role in the economy of Haryana as it is chiefly an agrarian economy. More than 50% of the number of residents of the state is straightforwardly or in a roundabout way relies upon this division for their livelihood. Ideal agro-climatic conditions give great chance to the advancement of horticultural crops in the state. The objective of the study is to examine the special problems in horticultural crops in Haryana. There is a need and potential for crop diversification by developing the horticulture sector in the state. In the present study, an attempt has been made to study the status and constraints of protected cultivation and agro processing industries because to minimize the post-harvest losses, a comprehensive strategy which incorporates advancement of physical, functional and market infrastructure along with provision of single window system, tax rebate and export subsidy need to develop to boost agro processing in the state.
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