What is the carbon footprint of processed millets such as ragi or jowar?

Processing usually adds cleaning, destoning, dehulling and milling electricity, plus packaging and transport. The farm stage should come from farmer data or a database figure. Report per kg of finished flour or grain, and say whether bran and husk were sold.

Processing steps

• Cleaning and grading.
• Dehulling or polishing, for some millets.
• Milling into flour.
• Packing.

By-products

Bran and husk sold on can share the emissions by a stated allocation rule.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads fuel invoices and electricity bills and applies IPCC 2006 factors and the CEA grid factor (0.710 kg CO2 per kWh), so you can compare Scope 1 and 2 before and after a change from the documents themselves.

• Dal mill per tonne
• Rice mill per tonne paddy

Sources: CEA CO2 Baseline Database for the Indian Power Sector, GHG Protocol standards, including the Product Standard

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.