**8. A prospective scenario: institutional leadership directing and driving mainstreaming**

For biofortification to reach its full potential, it must be included as a primary activity within a number of international organisations. Three crucial elements are required, and they are as follows [47, 48]:

#### **8.1 Supply**

Agricultural research organisations, both public and corporate, now recognise high mineral and vitamin content as crucial plant breeding goals. In order to be approved for release, varieties must now meet minimal requirements for vitamins and minerals (in addition to the standard agronomic traits, such as high yield).

#### **8.2 Policy**

Many domestic and international public leaders start to recognise the significant contribution biofortification makes to maintaining and improving public health, as well as the high economic return on investment in biofortification and the legitimacy afforded by universal acclaim (especially by standards bodies).

#### **8.3 Demand**

Customers in both urban and rural areas are beginning to appreciate and demand foods with high mineral and vitamin concentrations. The secret to guaranteeing a consistent supply of biofortified crops goes beyond a breeding programme focused on biofortification, with funding committed explicitly.

### **9. Conclusions**

Millets being an immense source of essential nutrients are dietary staple for a wide range of population both in Asian and African countries especially of those belonging to economically weaker sections of the society. Still so many developing countries are facing micro and macro nutrient deficiency. Sustainable development goals have gave more focus on nutritional aspects.

In light of newly discovered information in the genome sequences of several minor millets, now is the ideal time to utilise genomic areas determining nutritional properties in breeding programs. Because of these breeding programmes so many biofortified varierties have been introduced to combat the nutrition related issues to give the food security. Government, private sectors, NGO's have joined their hands to solve problem. As a result of recently revealed insights in the genome sequences of several minor millets, it is now time for breeding efforts to make advantage of

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genomic areas determining nutritional properties. Overall, millets could be promoted as a model system for the advancement of quality traits and used as a staple crop in the global economy by combining conventional and traditional breeding with the collective approach utilising all of the omics tools, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics.
