Volume: 19 Issue-01 (January-June) 2024

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TO STUDY ABOUT USAGE OF MILLET BY TRIBAL PEOPLE OF BASTAR IN THEIR FOOD CUISINE

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to investigate the communicational traits of tribal millet farmers in the Bastar Plateau Zone of Chhattisgarh State., India, that influence their level of awareness and use of recommended small millet cultivation practices. Data was gathered during in interviews, with a Hindi interview schedule created. Farmers with little resources have historically farmed millets including sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, and small millets all across nation. They are labeled "nutri-cereals," which are loaded in minerals like calcium, iron, zinc, potassium, and magnesium as well as essential fatty acids, protein, and fibre. Millets were found to be useful in strengthening mud walls, as a fertilizer for onion fields, disease, and insect-pest control, protecting pulses in storage, baking earthen pots, treating animals and poultry, increasing milk productivity in cattle, treating burns, and many other applications. Identify the Kodo variety they were growing as JK 62, little millet has a low potential for production but is popular among tribes. Only one farmer correctly identified the JK 8 cultivar of little millet. The farmers were aware that they were cultivating the RAU 8 variety of finger millet.

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