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Hindi English Botanical name Assamese Bengali Gujarati Kannada Malayalam Marathi ... Millet (finger millet) flour: মারওআএর গুড়া (Marwaer Gũṛa)
Pearl millet is one of the two major crops in the semiarid, impoverished, less fertile agriculture regions of Africa and southeast Asia. [39] Millets are not only adapted to poor, dry infertile soils, but they are also more reliable under these conditions than most other grain crops. [39] Millets, however, do respond to high fertility and moisture.
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]
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 ...
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
Foxtail millet, scientific name Setaria italica (synonym Panicum italicum L.), is an annual grass grown for human food. It is the second-most widely planted species of millet , and the most grown millet species in Asia.
Panicum miliaceum is a grain crop with many common names, including proso millet, broomcorn millet, common millet, hog millet, Kashfi millet, red millet, and white millet. [2] Archaeobotanical evidence suggests millet was first domesticated about 10,000 BP in Northern China. [ 3 ]
Pages in category "Millets" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Finger millet;