Proximate composition of food crops is an essential and inevitable tool to identify their ability to suffice the nutritional security of society. Creating database for the key components of biochemical composition is also an essential step to categorized food crops on nutritional supplanting capacity. Conventionally, for the biochemical characterization was performed with tedious and time consuming proximate and wet methods which did not match with current analytical requirements viz., quick, easy cheap, effective rugged and accurate. Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy expected to fulfill the above mention characters. | Comparative efficiency of conventional and NIR based technique for proximate composition of pigeon pea, soybean and rice cultivars
