1. ALL INDIA COORDINATED SMALL MILLETS IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
Project Coordinating Unit
Gandhi Krishi Vigyan Kendra
Bangalore

2. SMALL MILLETS : Food Crops of Arid, Tribal & Hill Areas
FINGER MILLET
FOXTAIL MILLET
BARNYARD MILLET
PROSO MILLET
KODO MILLET
LITTLE MILLET

3. SMALL MILLETS Crops of antiquity
Suitable for dry lands & important in hill and tribal agriculture
Food security of disadvantaged regions
Require less water, mature early and cultivated in scarcity conditions
Highly Resilient in adapting to different ecological conditions
Ideal crops for climate change and contingency plantings
Unique nutritional properties – high fiber, quality protein & mineral composition
Nutritional security of disadvantaged groups

4. GLOBAL SCENARIO 15 m ha and India’s share is 20%)
GLOBAL SCENARIO
15 m ha and India’s share is 20%
Finger millet: 25 countries with m ha for brewarage & food; India’s share is 40%
Foxtail millet: m ha, China tops and CMS based hybrids with high yield potential
Proso millet: m ha, mostly in Eurasian countries
Barnyard millet: m ha mostly in India and Japan
Little millet & Kodo millet: Heritage crops of India
Export potential – as bird feed and organic millets worth of 100 crore, India’s share is negligible

6. AREA, PRODUCTION AND YIELD OF SMALL MILLETS IN INDIA
DURING
Small Millets
Area
( ‘000 ha )
Production
( ‘000 tonnes)
Yield
( kg/ha )
States
Finger millet
1534
2354
Kar, UK, MR, TN, AP and Ors
Foxtail Millet 98 56
565
AP, Kar and TN
Kodo Millet
244 73
312
MP, Chd and TN
Little Millet
291
102
349
AP, Chd, Orissa, TN and Kar
Proso Millet 42 18
323
Bihar, TN and UP
Barnyard Millet
195
167
857
UK and TN

10. ALL INDIA COORDINATED SMALL MILLETS IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
Established in 1986
Head Quarters at UAS, Bangalore
13 AICRP centres and 20 voluntary centres located all over India.
Target crops - Finger millet, Foxtail millet, Barnyard millet, Proso millet, Little millet and Kodo millet
Focussed on developing appropriate production technologies to meet regional needs.
Work is multidisciplinary and applied in nature

11. AICSMIP Centers Centre Location Mandate 1. P. C. Unit, Bangalore
UAS,GKVK, Bangalore, Karnataka
All Small Millets 2.
Berhampur
RARS, OUAT, Berhampur, Orissa
Finger millet, Little millet 3.
Coimbatore
TNAU, Coimbatore
Finger millet & other small millets 4.
Dholi
RAU, Dholi (Muzaffarpur), Bihar
Proso millet, Finger millet, Barnyard millet 5.
Dindori
JNKVV, Dindori, M.P.
Kodo millet, Little millet 6.
Jagdalpur
IGKVV, Jagadalpur, Chhattisgarh 7.
Kolhapur
MPKVV, Kolhapur, Maharashtra
Finger millet and other small millets 8.
Mandya
UAS, Mandya, Karnataka
Finger millet 9.
Mysore
CFTRI, Mysore, Karnataka
10.
Nandyal
ANGRAU, Nandyal, AP
Foxtail millet
11.
Ranchi
BAU, Jharkhand
12.
Ranichauri
GBPAU&T, Uttarakhand
Finger millet, Barnyard millet
13.
Rewa
Rewa M.P.
14.
Vizianagaram
ANGRAU, Vizianagaram, AP.

12. Varieties released during 1986 to 2009
Crop
No. of varieties
Finger millet 42
Foxtail millet 17
Kodo millet 15
Little millet 13
Proso millet 11
Barnyard millet

13. POPULARIZATION OF HYV’s

15. TECHNOLOGY FOR ORGANIC PRODUCTION
Application of 100% N through poultry manure out yields (18%) the recommended package of practices in finger millet
Application of 100% N (vermicompost and chullu cake, 50% each) yields on par to inorganic fertilizers application in barnyard millet

16. Thrust Areas
There is a need to strengthen basic and strategic research especially in molecular biology to support crop improvement
Technology delivery in tribal and hill areas to be strengthened
Intensification of research on crop improvement for grain and fodder quality
Strengthening of research on grain processing and value addition to improve demand for small millets