The ICAR-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (CTCRI), Thiruvananthapuram, has started a ‘millet museum’ on its campus as part of its efforts to spread awareness about them.
On a 10-cent plot, the institute, which has a large campus at Sreekaryam, has planted different millets such as foxtail millet, little millet, finger millet, barnyard millet, pearl millet, kodo millet, proso millet, sorghum, and brown top millet.
The ‘museum’ is part of the institute’s millet promotion campaigns undertaken as part of the International Year of Millets-2023, CTCRI director G. Byju, who formally inaugurated the new initiative, said.
