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Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) seeds, India.Foxtail millet, scientific name Setaria italica (synonym Panicum italicum L.), is an annual grass grown for human food. It is the second-most widely planted species of millet, and the most grown millet species in Asia.
Rahibai Soma Popere (pronounced [raːhiːbaːiː somaː popɛrɛ]), born in 1964, is an Indian farmer and conservationist. She helps other farmers return to native varieties of crops, preparing hyacinth beans for self-help groups. She is among three Indians on the BBC list of "100 Women 2018".
Indian vegetable markets and grocery stores get their wholesale supplies from suppliers belonging to various regions/ethnicities from all over India and elsewhere, and the food suppliers/packagers mostly use sub-ethnic, region-specific item/ingredient names on the respective signs/labels used to identify specific vegetables, fruits, grains and ...
The besan laddu served in the Venkateswara Temple in Tirupati, India, has been called "the most famous temple laddu." The Maa Tarini Temple in Ghatgaon, India serves laddus made from coconut and khoa. The special laddu at the Subramaniya Swamy Temple in Tiruchendur, India is made from foxtail millet. [1] [14]
Little millet (Panicum sumatrense) is believed to have been domesticated around 5000 BC in Indian subcontinent and Kodo millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum) around 3700 BC, also in Indian subcontinent. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] Browntop millet ( Urochloa ramosa ) was likely domesticated in the Deccan near the beginning of the third millennium BCE and spread ...
Setaria viridis is a species of grass known by many common names, including green foxtail, [1] green bristlegrass, [1] and wild foxtail millet. [1] It is sometimes considered a subspecies of Setaria italica. [1] It is native to Eurasia, but it is known on most continents as an introduced species and is closely related to Setaria faberi, a ...
Paspalum scrobiculatum, commonly called kodo millet or koda millet, [1] [2] [3] is an annual grain that is grown primarily in Nepal (not to be confused with ragi (finger millet, Eleusine coracana)) [4] [5] and also in India, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and in West Africa from where it originated.
Panicum italicum may refer to two different species of plants: . Panicum italicum L., a synonym for Setaria italica (L.) P.Beauv. (common name, foxtail millet) Panicum italicum Ucria, a synonym (nom. illeg.) for Setaria verticillata (L.) P.Beauv.