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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]
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 ...
Pearl millet The Tamils cultivated paddy , sugarcane , millets , pepper , various pulses , coconuts , beans , cotton , plantain , tamarind and sandalwood . Paddy was the main crop, with different varieties grown in the wetland of Marutam, such as Vennel , Sennel , Pudunel , Aivananel and Torai .
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Cultivation of pearl millet is known from sites with semi-arid climate, occurring at Hallur, Rangpur and Nevasa. Cultivation of pearl millet in modern India (where it is also called bajra ) is mostly limited to the country's semi-arid regions.
From leaf crisps to pudding, India’s ‘super food’ millet finds its way onto the G20 dinner menu. September 9, 2023 at 11:02 AM. When the leaders of the Group of 20 arrived in host country ...
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 ...
In irrigated lands, pearl millet is rotated with chickpea, fodder sorghum, and wheat. In the dry and light soils of Rajasthan, southern Punjab and Haryana, and northern Gujarat, pearl millet is most often rotated with a pulse-like moth or mungbean, or is followed by fallow, sesame, potato, mustard, moth bean, and guar. Sesame crop may be low ...