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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]
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 .
Browntop millet can represent up to 10–25% of the diet of terrestrial and water birds. [15] Also 50% of ingested seed found in mourning dove 's crops was browntop millet. [ 16 ] Urochloa ramosa is also used to suppress root-knot nematode populations in tomato and pepper crops in south-eastern states of America.
The Portuguese adopted the name as canje, with the first document mentioning the dish and the word in 1563. The English name was adopted from the Portuguese . [ 9 ] In China, congee is known as zhou ( Chinese : 粥 ; pinyin : zhōu ; Cantonese Yale : jūk ), with the first recorded reference traced back to 1000 BC during Zhou dynasty .
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Japanese millet is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Echinochloa esculenta ...
Bran is present in cereal grain, including rice, corn (maize), wheat, oats, barley, rye, and millet. Bran is not the same as chaff , which is a coarser, scaly material surrounding the grain, but does not form part of the grain itself, and which is indigestible by humans.
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Paspalum scrobiculatum, commonly called kodo millet or koda millet, [1] [2] [3] is an annual grain that is grown primarily in Nepal (not to be confused with ragi (finger millet, Eleusine coracana)) [4] [5] and also in India, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and in West Africa from where it originated.