The document discusses millets, their cultivation in India, and their advantages. Millets require less water than other cereals, can grow in poor soils without fertilizers, and are pest-resistant. They allow for multiple intercropping and provide food, nutrition, fodder, fiber, and livelihood benefits. The document also briefly describes Coleus and Quails, noting their nutritional profiles and that Quails were first domesticated in Japan and later introduced to India for their high protein and rapid growth.

1. FUTURE OF FOOD & FARMING
MILLETS

12. Water requirement

13. Rainfall requirement

19. Cereal production - India

20. Cereal production - India

21. Area under cereal cultivation - India

22. Area under cereal cultivation - India

23. Millet meal

24. Advantage - Millets
Grows on the poorest of soils
No demand for synthetic fertilisers
Pest free crops
Cropping system – multiple crops
Baranaja, Saat Dhan, Pannendu Pantalu
Produce multiple security – food, nutrition, fodder, fibre, health,
livelihood, ecology
Climate change compliant crops
Increasing temperatures
Increasing water stress
Malnutrition

25. Source: Millet Network of India, Deccan
Development Society – FIAN, India

29. COLEUS –
Pashanabedi (Kannada), Patharchur (Hindi)

30. Hippali (Kannada), Pipali (Hindi), Tippili (Tamil&
Malayalam), Long pepper (English)

31. Glory lily, Agnishika, Gowrihoo,
Akkatangi balli, Karihari,
Agnijihwa, Agnimukhi,
Sukarapushpika, Garbhagatini.

32. QUAILS
First domesticated in Japan in 1595
Introduced in India - 1974
High nutritive value
High protein, low fat
Rapid growth
Early maturation
Short generation interval
Egg production

33. Moisture Protein Fat Carbohydrate Minerals
Quail 73.93% 20.54% 3.85% 0.56% 1.12%
Chicken 73.87% 20.66% 3.61% 0.78% 1.08%