Exploring Potential of Minor/Underutilized Grasses for Remote Areas Facing Food Scarcity

Ahmad, Farooq; Hameed, Mansoor; Ahmad, Muhammad Sajid Aqeel

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-77776-4_7

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“…Moreover, lignocellulosic biomass yielded by underutilized grasses might be processed into diversified products; however, lack of market development has so far hampered wider-scale implementation of the lignocellulosic biorefinery. It may be noted that lignocellulosic biomass currently fetches around 65 € per dry ton [12][13][14].…”

Section: Agro-botanical Superiority and Multipurpose Utilization Of U...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For promoting underutilized grasses, securing resource base in developing countries is vital for maintaining the safety net comprising of diversified products and food stuffs and thus contributing to ensuring food security strives. Another justification for promoting underutilized grasses is to ensure diversification of agricultural systems and to offer support to fragile social groups having lesser affordability to rely solely on staple commodities [1,14]. In addition, underutilized grasses cultivation on marginal, degraded and fellow lands can serve as a poverty alleviation strategy by empowering marginal sections of farming community.…”

Section: Need Of Underutilized Grasses Promotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Globally, over-reliance on major food crops (wheat, rice and maize) has led to food basket’s shrinking, while climate change, environmental pollution and deteriorating soil fertility demand the cultivation of less exhaustive but nutritious grasses. Unlike neglected grasses (grass species restricted to their centres of origin and only grown at the subsistence level), many underutilized grasses (grass species whose yield or usability potential remains unrealized) are resistant and resilient to abiotic stresses and have multiple uses including food (Coix lacryma-jobi), feed (Eragrostis amabilis and Cynodon dactylon), esthetic value (Miscanthus sinensis and Imperata cylindrica), renewable energy production (Spartina pectinata and Andropogon gerardii Vitman) and contribution to ecosystem services (Saccharum spontaneum). Lack of agricultural market globalization, urbanization and prevalence of large commercial enterprises that favor major grasses trade, improved communication means that promoted specialization in favor of established crops, scant planting material of underutilized grasses and fewer research on their production technology and products development are the prime challenges posed to underutilized grasses promotion. Integration of agronomic research with novel plant protection measures and plant breeding and molecular genetics approaches for developing biotic and abiotic stresses tolerant cultivars along with the development of commercially attractive food products hold the future key for promoting underutilized grasses for supplanting food security and sustainably multiplying economic outcomes.

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Section: Agro-botanical Superiority and Multipurpose Utilization Of U...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Need Of Underutilized Grasses Promotionmentioning

confidence: 99%