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Pearl millet is one of the two major crops in the semiarid, impoverished, less fertile agriculture regions of Africa and southeast Asia. [43] Millets are not only adapted to poor, dry infertile soils, but they are also more reliable under these conditions than most other grain crops. [43] Millets, however, do respond to high fertility and moisture.
Different types of millets (jowar, bajra, ragi) are the common grains used for making bhakris. These millet bhakris are popular in the Deccan plateau regions of India (Maharashtra and Northern Karnataka) as well as the semi-arid regions of Rajasthan. [2] [3] In the coastal Konkan and Goa regions of western India rice flour is used for making ...
Hindi English Botanical name Assamese Bengali Gujarati Kannada Malayalam Marathi Oriya Punjabi Sinhala Tamil Telugu Tulu Urdu Konkani Meitei Maithili Rajasthani; मक्कि/मकै (Makki/Makai) Maize, Corn: Zea mays: মাকৈ (Mākoi) ভুট্টা (Bhuṭṭā) મકાઈ (Makāi) ಮುಸುಕಿನ ಜೋಳ (Musukina ...
Urban menus typically have wheat in the form of chapatis and plain rice as the main staples. Traditional rural households would have millet in form of bhakri on the Deccan plains and rice on the coast as respective staples. [59] Typical breakfast items include misal, pohe, upma, sheera, sabudana khichadi and thalipeeth.
Indian millet is a name widely used in different parts of the world to describe a number of different plants. A possibly incomplete list is: Sorghum bicolor (synonym: Sorghum vulgare) Oryzopsis hymenoides (synonyms: Achnatherum hymenoides, Stipa hymenoides) Panicum miliaceum; Penicillaria spicata
Ragi dosa – dosa made out of finger millet. Roti – most simple and common of all Indian breads. Apart from wheat based roti, several millet based and rice based rotis are made like: Akki rotti; Jolada rotti; Makki ki roti; Ragi rotti– made of ragi (finger millet) flour; Rotlo (Bajra roti), a Gujarati staple bread made of millet flour [9]
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.
Echinochloa frumentacea (Indian barnyard millet, sawa millet, or billion dollar grass) [2] is a species of Echinochloa. Both Echinochloa frumentacea and E. esculenta are called Japanese millet . This millet is widely grown as a cereal in India , Pakistan , and Nepal .