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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]
The Japanese millets (Echinochloa esculenta) are considered the best for grazing and in particular Shirohie, a new variety of Japanese millet, is the best suited variety for grazing. This is due to a number of factors: it gives better regrowth and is later to mature compared to other Japanese millets; it is cheap – cost of seed is $2–$3 per ...
Geromyia penniseti (millet grain midge): The larvae eat the developing grain and form white pupal cases attached to the tips of spikelets. Reported losses in Senegal are as high as 90 percent. Pachnoda interrupta (millet beetle) Psalydolytta fusca and Psalydolytta vestita (pearl millet blister beetle; Coleoptera, Meloidae) attack pearl millet.
Gramineae Juss. Poaceae (/ poʊˈeɪsi.iː, - ˌaɪ /), also called Gramineae (/ ɡrəˈmɪni.iː, - ˌaɪ /), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and pasture.
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Sorghum bicolor, commonly called sorghum[ 2 ] (/ ˈsɔːrɡəm /) and also known as great millet, [ 3 ]broomcorn, [ 4 ]guinea corn, [ 5 ]durra, [ 6 ]imphee, [ 7 ]jowar, [ 8 ] or milo, [ 9 ] is a species in the grass genus Sorghum cultivated for its grain. The grain is used for food for humans; the plant is used for animal feed and ethanol ...
Panicum decompositum. Panicum decompositum, known by the common names native millet, native panic, Australian millet, papa grass, and umbrella grass, is a species of perennial grass native to the inland of Australia. It occurs in every mainland state. [1] The seeds can be cultivated to produce flour typically used in Aboriginal bushfood. [2]
Fields. Agricultural scientist. Award design, from Executive Order. Glenn W. Burton (May 5, 1910 near Clatonia, Gage County, Nebraska – November 22, 2005 Tifton, Georgia) was an American agricultural scientist [1] [2] notable for his pioneering work in plant breeding, development of pearl millet in 1956 and for other contributions that helped ...