All seeds are grains, but every grain does not make a seed!

As we approach the time to gather seeds for the upcoming season ...

Lets call it bleached rice, not polished rice

I was lucky to have had the opportunity to spend a good part of a day a couple of weeks ago with an amazing group of students and faculty from Massey University, New Zealand. They were traveling through south India on a study tour - trying to understand how Sustainability, Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurship is … Continue reading Lets call it bleached rice, not polished rice

Does this moisture meter work?

No prize for guessing who typically looses when buyers pull out an uncalibrated moisture meter

The 2017 National workshop on Millets

Process flow in millet processing for better bran retention and cleaner millet rice

Millets and Sustainability

slides of a presentation I shared with green enthusiasts at Cisco on Thu. the 20th as part of their Earth Aware program.

Immature millet grains – why remove when processing?

Immature grains spoil the look, taste, cooking quality ... it needs to go out and not stick around in the millet rices ! First in a series of posts on why we need to change the way we process millets.

Will there be enough millets to feed the world?

finding twice the area under paddy cultivation to cultivate millets on, is very much achievable.