ICRISAT, ICAR-IIMR launch 'Millet Finder'

Hyderabad: The year 2020 has discovered a surge in the use of millets, with over a thousand modern convenient products in a very wide range, across all the inhabited continents.

To connect the millet lovers across the countries, International Crops Research Institute of the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the Indian Institute of Millets Research of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR-IIMR) have launched a "Millet Finder" on Wednesday at FoodTec Expo. It is known that the Millet Finder will help users find over 500 products across 30 countries.

Another 500 products have been identified and are set to be included and mapped by the end of the year, by Smart Food team at ICRISAT, who created the database and will continue growing it.