**7. Role of agronomy in underutilized grasses promotion**

Underutilized grasses hold bright perspectives in improving the food and nutritional security of a rapidly increasing population; enhance the nutritional balance and impart sustainability to modern profit-oriented farming systems. These may also serve as grower-friendly poverty alleviation strategy by generating additional income and that too with the utilization of meager resources. Agronomy is a branch of agriculture which deals with sustainable production of food, feed, fuel and fiber crops by putting into practice biologically viable and economically attractive approaches encompassing persistently evolving production technology package and agricultural soil management, restoration and preservation. Agronomists hold critical role in boosting underutilized grasses cultivation on large scale by developing environmental friendly technology packages. Following are some of the vital roles that Agronomy and Agronomists can perform to make cultivation of underutilized grasses economically viable under changing climatic scenarios.
