PHYSICAL AND FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF TRADITIONAL MILLET CULTIVARS (ELEUSINE CORACANA L.)

Botany

The Millets are grown in warm weather belonging to the grass family (Poaceae). The most commonly cultivated millets are Finger millet (Eleusine coracana), Proso millet (Panicum miliaceum), Little millet (Panicum sumatrense), Sonoran millet (Panicum sonorum), Pear millet (Pennisetum glaucum), Brown top millet (Brachiaria ramosa), like this many have been present in Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka. Many variety of millets has been spreads into world wide such places are East Asia, South Asia, West Africa, and East Africa. The millets are rich in protein, fibre, vitamins and minerals. Widely millets have been consumed by humans for about 7,000 years and potentially yield a role of multi-crop agriculture and settled in farming societies. The four types of traditional finger millet cultivars has been analysed for moisture content on wet basis, the millets are Milky cream millet, Brown millet, Black millet, Pearl millet. The characterization of powdery particles can be viewed by using SEM. Physical and dimensional properties has been carried out, Arithmetic mean, Geometric mean, Equivalent diameter, Aspect ratio, Sphericity and Surface area and the results were analyzed by applying the Duncan Multiple Range test (DMRT) procedure using ANOVA. All these dimensions and analysis show the quality of grains used to produce fortified FM flour with Zinc and Vitamins

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