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Neglected and Underutilized Food Plants of India

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Climate change and increasing population pressure demands a high amount of food production to ensure food and nutritional security for the world. Now it became vital to investigate the possibilities of utilising newer indigenous and wild plant resources which are considered to be underutilised and neglected. India is one of the mega-diverse or mega-biodiversity countries of the world, rich in biodiversity and consists of many plant species which are endemic in nature and many of them are not well known or documented properly and still lying unexplored or underexploited. India is consisting of number of underutilised and neglected plants such as millets, tubers, leguminous plants, vegetable crops, fruits, edible flowers etc. Therefore, the present chapter on neglected food plants provides deep insight into neglected and underutilised plants of India, its beneficial uses, its role in nutrition and food security. Exploration of value added products from neglected plant species and constraints in utilisation and marketing of neglected plants of India.

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    Debabrata Panda, Prafulla K. Behera, Suraj K. Padhi & Aloukika Panda

  2. Department of Anthropology, Central University of Odisha, Koraput, India

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Panda, D., Behera, P.K., Padhi, S.K., Panda, A., Nayak, J.K. (2023). Neglected and Underutilized Food Plants of India. In: Ismail, T., Akhtar, S., Lazarte, C.E. (eds) Neglected Plant Foods Of South Asia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37077-9_5

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