Promote millets, national food technology institute students urged

Students of the National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management, Thanjavur (NIFTEM-T) should strive to marque millets a cosmopolitan merchandise specified arsenic oats, said N. Kalaiselvi, Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and Director-General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

Delivering the convocation code connected the NIFTEM-T premises astatine Melavasthachavadi connected the outskirts of Thanjavur connected Friday, Dr. Kalaiselvi said the satellite was looking astatine India for assorted issues. “World’s presumption astir the state is driven by factors specified arsenic intelligence talent, ethics, and values of lives,” she said.

Dr. Kalaiselvi said if oats could beryllium promoted arsenic a highly nutritious nutrient wherefore not millets, known for their debased glycemic scale and affluent fibre promoted arsenic a cosmopolitan merchandise for diabetes. “Technologies based connected millets, accepted grains, probiotics, functional ingredients, and nutraceuticals are opening wholly caller frontiers for nutrient innovation,” she said.

“All that you person to ore is to marque the merchandise concur with planetary standards truthful that your merchandise tin marque a people successful the satellite marketplace successful summation to the section marketplace which is one-third of the planetary market,” she said.

While occurrence of each different industries was babelike connected the availability of earthy material, the nutrient manufacture did not endure connected this beforehand successful presumption of capable accumulation of agriculture produce, she said.

C. Anandharamakrishnan, Director, CSIR National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, outlined the possibilities of making millets a staple and reliable nutrient for diabetics. He urged the NIFTEM-T students to ore connected inventing value-added products from coconuts isolated from inventing caller value-added products utilizing millets.

T.G. Sitharam, Chairperson, Board of Governors, and V. Palanimuthu, Director, NIFTEM-T, were present.