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Pearl millet is a summer annual crop well-suited for double cropping and rotations. The grain and forage are valuable as food and feed resources in Africa, Russia, India and China. Today, pearl millet is grown on over 260,000 square kilometres (100,000 sq mi) of land worldwide. It accounts for about 50% of the total world production of millets. [7]
Both Echinochloa frumentacea and E. esculenta are called Japanese millet. This millet is widely grown as a cereal in India , Pakistan , and Nepal . Its wild ancestor is the tropical grass Echinochloa colona , [ 3 ] but the exact date or region of domestication is uncertain.
Browntop millet can represent up to 10–25% of the diet of terrestrial and water birds. [15] Also 50% of ingested seed found in mourning dove 's crops was browntop millet. [ 16 ] Urochloa ramosa is also used to suppress root-knot nematode populations in tomato and pepper crops in south-eastern states of America.
If finger millet flour and water is used, it is known as kurakkan anama. If coconut milk is added, the dish is called kurakkan kenda. If sago is used, such congee is known as sawu kenda. A special type of congee prepared from the byproducts of coconut oil production is known as pol kiri kenda.
Khader Vali, also spelled Khadar Valli Dudekula, residing in Mysore is a food and nutrition specialists, who advocates consumtion of millets to control life style diseases like diabetes, hypertension.
This dish, primarily made with millet, served with stewed vegetables and meat, cooked in a cauldron, remains a part of modern Ukrainian cuisine. [53] In Germany, it is eaten sweet, for example with milk and berries for breakfast. [54] Millet is the main ingredient in bánh đa kê, a Vietnamese sweet snack.
Wild cereals and other wild grasses in northern Israel. Ancient grains is a marketing term used to describe a category of grains and pseudocereals that are purported to have been minimally changed by selective breeding over recent millennia, as opposed to more widespread cereals such as corn, rice and modern varieties of wheat, which are the product of thousands of years of selective breeding.
Bran is present in cereal grain, including rice, corn (maize), wheat, oats, barley, rye, and millet. Bran is not the same as chaff , which is a coarser, scaly material surrounding the grain, but does not form part of the grain itself, and which is indigestible by humans.