relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/11440/
title: Development of mobile sensors for estimation of grain qualities and contaminants to enhance nutrition and safety of grain-products in developing countries; current status
creator: Kholova, J
creator: Chandalavada, K
creator: Vadez, V
creator: Choudhary, S
creator: Govindaraj, M
creator: Bagade, P
creator: Smith, M
creator: Lindsay, R
creator: Gerth, S
creator: Claussen, J
creator: Palmer, W
creator: Matheka, A
creator: Cobb, J N
creator: Enghwa, N G
subject: Agricultural Marketing
subject: Food and Nutrition
subject: Food Security
description: The governments of several developing countries responded to their population “malnutrition crisis” (P.Webb et al., 2018), among others, by promotion of crops of high nutritional value and their enhanced usage for food products formulations (e.g. “Millet Mission” in India or “Blending Policy” in Kenya). Simultaneously, several CGIAR crop improvement programs-initiated the development of nutritionally enhanced crop cultivars (e.g. ICRISAT, CIAT, IIT). In developing countries, the promotion of novel cultivars is generally a slow and tedious process, especially if the improved grain (quantity or quality) doesn’t ultimately result in the economic incentives (e.g. the market price).  Thus far, there is no economic advantage directly linked to the trade of bio-fortified crop cultivars in developing countries which does prevents their accelerated adoption. This may change if/once the necessary information on a crops value is enabled.
date: 2019-09
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/11440/1/NIR2019-Mobile%20sensors_cp.pdf
identifier:   Kholova, J and Chandalavada, K and Vadez, V and Choudhary, S and Govindaraj, M and Bagade, P and Smith, M and Lindsay, R and Gerth, S and Claussen, J and Palmer, W and Matheka, A and Cobb, J N and Enghwa, N G  (2019) Development of mobile sensors for estimation of grain qualities and contaminants to enhance nutrition and safety of grain-products in developing countries; current status.  In: Near Infrared Spectroscopy 2019, 15-20 September, Gold Coast, Australia.