Retired CFTRI Scientist honoured

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Dr. N.G. Malleshi (centre), retired Scientist G and Head, Department of Grain Science and Technology, CFTRI and a resident of CFTRI Layout in Bogadi II Stage, seen receiving the citation from Prof. Hegade, retired Director of Research, UAS, Bengaluru, at the Millet Conference held at Bengaluru recently as Dr. Vilas Tonapi, Director, ICAR-Indian Institute of Millet Research, Hyderabad, looks on.
Dr. N.G. Malleshi (centre), retired Scientist G and Head, Department of Grain Science and Technology, CFTRI and a resident of CFTRI Layout in Bogadi II Stage, seen receiving the citation from Prof. Hegade, retired Director of Research, UAS, Bengaluru, at the Millet Conference held at Bengaluru recently as Dr. Vilas Tonapi, Director, ICAR-Indian Institute of Millet Research, Hyderabad, looks on.

Mysuru :

The Indian Institute of Millet Research (ICAR-IIMR) and Society for Millets Research, Hyderabad, honoured Dr. N.G. Malleshi, former Sr. Scientist and Head, Department of Grain Science and Technology, CSIR-CFTRI, Mysuru, for his contributions in the area of Millet Nutrition and Post-Harvest processing of Millets for their nutritional upgradation and value addition.

The occasion was a brain-storming conference on ‘Leveraging Small Millets for Food, Fodder, Nutrition, Livelihood Security and Economic Prosperity in the 21st Century and Beyond’ held at Bengaluru last month.

Dr. Malleshi has 35 years of Research experience at CSIR-CFTRI and had opportunities to undertake advanced R&D activities on Millets in world renown Institutes like Kansas State University, Carlsberg Research Laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK and The National Research Institute of Brewing (NRIB), Higashihirosima, Japan, while in service.

His noteworthy contributions are Malting of millets and development of Malted Weaning Food, Infant food, Enteral Food (medical foods), Ragi-rice, Hypoglycemic and Geriatric foods, Millet polyphenols, Quality Jaggery and cereal carbohydrates.

He also served as visiting faculty to MS University Vadodara, University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Dharwad, UAS Bengaluru and JSS Arts, Commerce and Science College, Mysuru.

After superannuation in Dec. 2008, Dr. Malleshi is actively associated as Scientific Adviser to a few food processing industries engaged in Millet processing, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Supplementary nutrition, Breakfast cereals and Health foods. Besides, he has served as short-duration International Food Processing Consultant to FAO, USAID and UNIDO at Laos PDR, Zambia and Sri Lanka.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / June 05th, 2016

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