This successful project developed efficient and user-friendly equipment for de-hulling and processing small millets, increasing production and reducing women’s drudgery.
Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF)-supported projects are implementing innovations to increase millet consumption and farmer incomes by making it easier to process, sell, and consume millets.
Benchmark design features are provided to guide new designs of hulling machines for small millets.
Efforts were taken to assess and improve existing small millet processing machines with the following objectives in mind: 1) improve the quantity and quality of output 2) reduce drudgery in processing 3) improve ease of use maintenance, safety and