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Kodo millet has large potential to provide nourishing food to subsistence farmers in Africa and elsewhere. The plant is called kodrava in Sanskrit, Arikelu in the Telugu language , Varagu in Tamil , Varak (വരക്) in Malayalam , Arka in Kannada , Kodo in Hindi and Kodra in Punjabi .
Pearl millet: Pennisetum glaucum: ... Kodo millet: Paspalum scrobiculatum: কোডো (Kodo) ... Malayalam Marathi Oriya Punjabi Sinhala Tamil Telugu Tulu
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. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] Browntop millet ( Urochloa ramosa ) was likely domesticated in the Deccan near the beginning of the third millennium BCE and spread ...
As per him, millets can also help mitigate global warming and ensure food security, as only 300 litres of water are required to grow 1 kilogram of positive grains (Siridhanya) such as Foxtail millet (Navane), Barnyard millet (Oodalu), Kodo millet (Arka), Little millet (Saame), and Browntop millet (Korle), whereas to manufacture 1 kilogram of ...
Paspalum scrobiculatum (koda, varuka, varuku, etc.) is a millet locally grown as food grain. Some species, such as bahiagrass (P. notatum) and P. nicorae, are grown for pasturage, especially with the perennial forage peanut (Arachis glabrata) as a companion crop. Bahiagrass has also some significance as a honey plant.
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.
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.
Echinochloa esculenta: Japanese barnyard millet; Echinochloa frumentacea: Indian barnyard millet; Echinochloa crus-galli: Common barnyard grass; Paspalum scrobiculatum: Kodo millet; Genus Brachiaria. Brachiaria deflexa: Guinea millet; Brachiaria ramosa: Browntop millet; Andropogoneae tribe, also in the subfamily Panicoideae: Sorghum bicolor ...