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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]
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.
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 .
Proso millet: Panicum miliaceum: চীনা (Sinā) চীনা (Cheenā) ચેનો (Cheno) ಬರಗು (Baragu) പനിവരക് (Panivarakku) वरी (Vari) ଚଣି (Chaṇi) මෙනේරි (Meneri) பனிவரகு (Panivaragu) వరిగులు (Varigulu) चेनो/बरी (Cheno/Bari) कंगनी ...
sawa millet: Echinochloa cf. colona: yellow foxtail: Setaria pumila: little millet: Panicum sumatrense: kodo millet: Paspalum scrobiculatum: Proto-South Dravidian *(v)ār/ar-Vk: pearl millet: millet: Pennisetum glaucum: Proto-South Dravidian *kam-pu: bulrush millet: finger millet: Eleusine coracana: Proto-South Dravidian *ira(k) ragi
Panicum sumatrense, known as little millet, is a species of millet in the family Poaceae. Description This ... Malayalam : Chama (ചാമ). Cultivation.
A porridge made from pearl millet is the staple food in Niger and surrounding regions of the Sahel. Oshifima or otjifima, a stiff pearl millet porridge, is the staple food of northern Namibia. Middle Eastern millet porridge, often seasoned with cumin and honey. Munchiro sayo, a millet porridge eaten by the Ainu, a native people of northern Japan.
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 ...