Millets are acceptable varieties to achieve food and nutritional security. Millets produced and consumed traditionally in India shown a decline in area and production except for pearl millet. These crops are getting extensive attention because of their health benefits and environment-friendly nature. The present study was surveyed on the availability and knowledge levels of farm families on millet utilization through media intervention, out of the total respondents, the majority (48.33%) of the respondents had two types of millets, i.e., finger millet and sorghum from Mahbubnagar and sorghum and pearl millet from Nalgonda district. More than half (83.00%) of the respondents were using store house to store their crop yield, before intervention knowledge on millet utilization in over all respondents belonged to low knowledge (83.00%) and after media intervention (88.67%) had high knowledge, the data indicated that in both districts the t-calculated value had positive knowledge levels among farm families after media intervention.

Millet, knowledge, nutritional security, food, pearl millet, media, intervention

Millets, also known as "coarse grains", are highly valued for both food and fibres purposes and are grown in the harshest climatic conditions such as scanty rainfall or infertile soil. They are resistant to both biotic and abiotic stress and can give a handsome amount of yield despite unfavourable climatic conditions. Millets are the super foods of the present and future .Today media interventions are mainly attracting attention, stimulating the interest and desire among farm families for further inquiries and information, improving knowledge, attitude, and utilisation of millets. Due to enhanced usage of technology and changes in the behaviour of society, further, the findings inferred that the video exposed on millet utilization acted as an intervening variable in changing and increasing the cognitive domain of respondents. The video exposed was satisfied with the overall visual quality and overall sound quality, the classification of content into different parts, the appropriate sequencing of the programme and the clarity of the picture. It is concluded that the video method of presentation is an audio-visual medium which involves a greater number of senses than the subjects, thereby reducing the monotony and thereby increasing the understanding of the difficult steps in an easier manner.

A. Lalitha, R. Neela Rani, R. Geetha Reddy, T. Kamalaja and A. Meena (2022). Knowledge of farm Families on Millets in Selected Districts of Telangana State. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 14(3): 1512-1517.