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Finger millet (Eleusine coracana) is an annual herbaceous plant widely grown as a cereal crop in the arid and semiarid areas in Africa and Asia. It is a tetraploid and self-pollinating species probably evolved from its wild relative Eleusine africana. [2] Finger millet is native to the Ethiopian and Ugandan highlands. [3]
Ragi mudde, ragi sangati or kali, colloquially simply referred to as either mudde or hittu which means 'lump' or 'dough', is a finger millet swallow dish of India in the state of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh (Rayalaseema region). [1] In Tamil Nadu, especially in western Tamil Nadu, it is also called ragi kali.
Finger millet, proso millet, and foxtail millet are other important crop species. Millets may have been consumed by humans for about 7,000 years and potentially had "a pivotal role in the rise of multi-crop agriculture and settled farming societies".
Tongba: Limbu style, hot millet beer Tongba is actually the name of the vessel that holds the fermented millet beverage known as mandokpenaa thee. [4] Tongba is prepared from brown finger millet (Eleusine coracana, also known as ragi in India or kodo in Nepal) grown in hilly regions, and it is cooked and combined with traditionally cultured khesung, which is a microbial colony or starter culture.
Eleusine coracana: Finger millet; Eragrostis tef: Teff; Paniceae tribe in the subfamily Panicoideae: Genus Panicum: Panicum miliaceum: Proso millet (common millet, broomcorn millet) Panicum sumatrense: Little millet; Pennisetum glaucum: Pearl millet; Setaria italica: Foxtail millet; Genus Digitaria. Digitaria exilis: White fonio; Digitaria ...
The ICRISAT genebank serves as a repository for the collection of germplasm of the six mandate crops [16] – sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut; and five small millets – foxtail millet, little millet, kodo millet, proso millet and barnyard millet.
Finger millet, plant producing edible grain Ragi (Sikhism) , a Sikh person skilled in performing ragas Saccharomyces cerevisiae , a yeast also known as ragi yeast
Finger Millet (Eleusine coracana) – Eleusine africana [16] Barley (Hordeum vulgare) – Hordeum arizonicum and Hordeum spontaneum [17] Rice (Oryza sativa) – Oryza rufipogon [18] African Rice (Oryza glaberrima) – Oryza barthii; Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) – Pennisetum purpureum [19]