ABSTRACT
Small millets, the storehouse of climate-resilient features and nutrients, hold great potential for contributing substantially to the food and nutritional security of our changing world. Little scientific attention has been paid to these crops; hence, they have been termed ‘underutilized cereals’. Despite this constraint, a valuable quality of the small millets is that they continue to be grown in distant regions of the globe, which has conserved their biodiversity, providing breeders with unique genetic material for crop improvement. Research should, thus, focus on increasing germplasm collection, conservation, evaluation and utilization for developing elite cultivars of small millets. Moreover, policy interventions are required to promote their cultivation for sustainable agriculture.
