**18.1 Palmyrah leaves**

The tender leaves which are in ivory colour are harvested from the palm are sized into narrow strips that can be utilized for making toys, flowers, garlands and fancy goods. Whereas, the matured leaves are used for making of containers. The harvested leaves have mid ribs that can be utilized for making of the brooms.

**20. Conclusion**

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Merugu Chandra Surya Rao<sup>1</sup>

Management, Odisha, India

Satya Prakash Nanda<sup>1</sup> and Banavath Babu Rao<sup>2</sup>

provided the original work is properly cited.

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Palmyra tree plays an important role in human life. Every part of the tree is used for preparation of various types of products and it gives more health benefits. But everyone is not aware of this tree. So, it is necessary to create awareness regarding palmyrah natural (neera, nungu) and value added products (palm sugar, honey, toddy, wine, jaggery and flour. Post harvest losses can be considerably minimized and their storage life can be greatly increased by careful manipulation of moisture

Value addition involves change in the physical form of the agricultural produce which leads to its greater acceptability, extended availability, enhanced market viability and increased cost to benefit ratio for the grower of the agricultural produce. However, with the increasing population, industrialization and urbanization, India is facing serious challenges in food security. In order to sustain the agricultural production and address the challenges of food and livelihood security, agricultural diversification has to be adopted through the concept of value addition by minimizing the dependency on main staple crops. Introduction of new species in the agricultural production system in India is the need of the hour to increase the resiliency of agriculture. In this context, palmyrah palm is one such under exploited crop having a good number of produce in fresh form (palm neera, nungu) as well as in value added form with a capacity to provide high nutritional value and having the potentiality to overcome the problem of malnutrition in developing countries like India. Palmyrah palms are suitable for popularization through value addition (tuber flour, jaggery) which helps in income generation and thus it will improve food

content, rate of respiration and atmospheric composition.

*Scope, Nutritional Importance and Value Addition in Palmyrah…*

*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.97501*

security to the poor and livelihood security of the marginal farmers.

\*, Dokka Venkata Swami2

1 MS Swaminathan School of Agriculture, Centurion University of Technology and

2 Department of Horticulture, Dr. Y.S.R. Horticultural University, Andhra Pradesh,

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, P. Ashok<sup>2</sup>

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